[BUG] pbmClient.QueryAssociatedEntity hangs forever

[johananl]

Describe the bug
The following query hangs forever:

pbmClient.QueryAssociatedEntity(ctx, types.PbmProfileId{UniqueId: storageProfileID}, "virtualDiskId")

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Run the following snippet against a vSphere instance which has some storage policy defined (set the 4 env vars below to values which match your environment):

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/url"
	"os"

	"github.com/vmware/govmomi"
	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/pbm"
	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/pbm/types"
	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/session"
	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25"
	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/soap"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	server := os.Getenv("VSPHERE_SERVER")
	user := os.Getenv("VSPHERE_USERNAME")
	password := os.Getenv("VSPHERE_PASSWORD")
	storagePolicy := os.Getenv("VSPHERE_STORAGE_POLICY")

	serverURL, err := soap.ParseURL(server)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error parsing server URL: %s", err)
	}

	serverURL.User = url.UserPassword(user, password)

	soapClient := soap.NewClient(serverURL, true)

	vimClient, err := vim25.NewClient(ctx, soapClient)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error creating VIM client: %s", err)
	}

	vsphereClient := &govmomi.Client{
		Client:         vimClient,
		SessionManager: session.NewManager(vimClient),
	}

	if err := vsphereClient.Login(ctx, url.UserPassword(user, password)); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error logging in: %s", err)
	}

	pbmClient, err := pbm.NewClient(ctx, vimClient)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error creating PBM client: %s", err)
	}

	storageProfileID, err := pbmClient.ProfileIDByName(ctx, storagePolicy)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error getting storage profile ID: %s", err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("Storage profile ID: %s\n", storageProfileID)

	entities, err := pbmClient.QueryAssociatedEntity(ctx, types.PbmProfileId{UniqueId: storageProfileID}, "virtualDiskId")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error querying associated entities: %s", err)
	}

	fmt.Println(entities)
}

Expected behavior
I expect to get a list of entities. Instead, the library hangs forever on the pbmClient.QueryAssociatedEntity() call.

Affected version

• govmomi: latest master which is currently at f036314
• vCenter: 7.0.1 build 16858589
• ESXi: VMware ESXi, 7.0.2, 17630552

Screenshots/Debug Output
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Additional context
I am not sure if the behavior is caused by a bug in govmomi or the server side. Maybe there is a way to replicate the issue using govc to isolate the problem.

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[dougm]

@divyenpatel @SandeepPissay any pointers on how to debug this?

[SandeepPissay]

@dougm it's hard to tell without the vCenter support bundle. @johananl can you file a ticket with VMware GSS along with the vCenter support bundle?

[johananl]

@SandeepPissay thanks, I'm looking into it.

[johananl]

@SandeepPissay we've opened a ticket with GSS. Right now they're trying to figure out whether we are "entitled" to get support for SDK issues... 🤷 If you have a way to reach out to the relevant folks internally and tell them the request to open the ticket came from you, that could probably speed things up.

[johananl]

@SandeepPissay looks like GSS wouldn't help us due to some red tape issue. Maybe this needs to be handled internally at VMware. If there is anything else I can do to help debug this, please let me know.

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