[VMWare Driver] When cluster name contains special characters like "/", the cluster can not be found

[Feng Xi Yan]

How to reprodue:
1) In vcenter, change the cluster name into "cluster01/1"
2) Change nova.conf
cluster_name=cluster01/1
3) Start nova-compute service, we will get following error logs:

2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 CRITICAL nova [-] NotFound: All clusters specified ['cluster01/1'] were not found in the vCenter
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova Traceback (most recent call last):
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova File "/usr/bin/nova-compute", line 10, in <module>
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova sys.exit(main())
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/cmd/compute.py", line 72, in main
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova db_allowed=CONF.conductor.use_local)
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/service.py", line 275, in create
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova db_allowed=db_allowed)
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/service.py", line 148, in __init__
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova self.manager = manager_class(host=self.host, *args, **kwargs)
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 639, in __init__
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova self.driver = driver.load_compute_driver(self.virtapi, compute_driver)
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/driver.py", line 1439, in load_compute_driver
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova virtapi)
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/openstack/common/importutils.py", line 50, in import_object_ns
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova return import_class(import_value)(*args, **kwargs)
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/vmwareapi/driver.py", line 241, in __init__
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova % self._cluster_names)
2015-01-20 16:37:46.170 12489 TRACE nova NotFound: All clusters specified ['cluster01/1'] were not found in the vCenter

Reason:
The VSphere API get the cluster name as a URI string. So the "/" will be transitioned into "%2f". So we can not fetch the cluster MOR by a cluster name "cluster01/1". If we change nova.conf to set cluster_name as "cluster01%2f1", it will be OK. But this is not user friendly.

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

I am not familiar with virtualization. Is this a bug in VMWare vCenter or in nova-compute-vmware?

[Feng Xi Yan (yanfengxi)]

It's a bug of nova virt driver of VMWare VCenter.

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

Thanks for the reply. I think you need to report the issue to VMWare as this is an issue of their product.

[Feng Xi Yan (yanfengxi)]

I don't think it is a bug of vmware.
It's very reasonable for vmware to return the value as a uri string.
I think it's better we change the driver to fit this.

I will do the fix.

[Anthony Wong (anthonywong)]

Ok. For driver do you mean python-nova?

Which ubuntu kylin release are you using?

I noticed in your log it shows "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/vmwareapi/driver.py", but python-nova in 14.04 and 14.10 only has "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/vmwareapi/driver.py".

[Feng Xi Yan (yanfengxi)]

Oh, sorry, actually, this log is coming from icehouse release(with python26).
I am trying to fix it in kilo first, and backport icehouse and juno later.

[Feng Xi Yan (yanfengxi)]

Change is proposed at: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/148488/

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Feng Xi Yan (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/148488

[Feng Xi Yan (yanfengxi)]

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/187457/

[Takashi Natsume (natsume-takashi)]

This bug report has been 'In Progress' status for two years in Nova, but there is no activity in Nova.
So set it back to 'New' status and 'Undecided' importance.
This bug can be reopened (set back to "New") if someone reproduce the bug at newton, ocata or master.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

This needs verification again

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by ChangBo Guo(gcb) (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/187457
Reason: Please restore it if you want to continue working on this.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

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