I have configured a cinder-volume to point to a vmware vcenter, at first it works well when I try to create volume. But after many hours the connection timeout and when I create volume and below error thrown out:
2014-06-15 22:51:06.005 10392 INFO cinder.volume.flows.manager.create_volume [req-aee9e3f8-ba6f-47ef-a225-3ec56f4670cb d108fd6c885341059a57fc58673163d0 473dafb0592c449387c1dfd772f51a8d - - -] CN-E562449 Volume 9e881fd5-f0b2-4dee-a0e8-cd76e912c6cf: being created using CreateVolumeFromSpecTask._create_raw_volume with specification: {'status': u'creating', 'volume_size': 1, 'volume_name': u'volume-9e881fd5-f0b2-4dee-a0e8-cd76e912c6cf'}
2014-06-15 22:51:06.113 10392 DEBUG cinder.volume.drivers.vmware.api [-] CN-66671FE Checking if the current session: 526c24e8-cf1a-133f-02ee-1669c8e60442 is active. _is_current_session_active /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/drivers/vmware/api.py:260
2014-06-15 22:51:06.165 10392 ERROR suds.client [-] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="urn:vim25" xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<ns1:Body>
<ns0:SessionIsActive>
<ns0:_this type="SessionManager">SessionManager</ns0:_this>
<ns0:sessionID>526c24e8-cf1a-133f-02ee-1669c8e60442</ns0:sessionID>
<ns0:userName>root</ns0:userName>
</ns0:SessionIsActive>
</ns1:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
2014-06-15 22:51:06.169 10392 ERROR cinder.openstack.common.loopingcall [-] CN-F18D768 in dynamic looping call
2014-06-15 22:51:06.169 10392 TRACE cinder.openstack.common.loopingcall Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-06-15 22:51:06.169 10392 TRACE cinder.openstack.common.loopingcall File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/openstack/common/loopingcall.py", line 123, in _inner
2014-06-15 22:51:06.169 10392 TRACE cinder.openstack.common.loopingcall idle = self.f(*self.args, **self.kw)
2014-06-15 22:51:06.169 10392 TRACE cinder.openstack.common.loopingcall File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/drivers/vmware/api.py", line 82, in _func
2014-06-15 22:51:06.169 10392 TRACE cinder.openstack.common.loopingcall raise excep
2014-06-15 22:51:06.169 10392 TRACE cinder.openstack.common.loopingcall VimFaultException: Server raised fault: 'The session is not authenticated.'
2014-06-15 22:51:06.169 10392 TRACE cinder.openstack.common.loopingcall
2014-06-15 22:51:06.172 10392 DEBUG taskflow.storage [req-aee9e3f8-ba6f-47ef-a225-3ec56f4670cb d108fd6c885341059a57fc58673163d0 473dafb0592c449387c1dfd772f51a8d - - -] No backend provided, not calling functor 'taskflow.storage.SingleThreadedStorage._save_task_detail' _with_connection /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/taskflow/storage.py:88
This is a duplicate defect, see 1302514