fence_vmware_soap errors out on 100+ vms on VMware host

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability Add on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add on)

Issue

  • The fence_vmware_soap script fails to list virtual machines and fails to fence virtual machines if the virtual machine has an id that is higher than 100.

Resolution

  • This issue is resolved in the following errata for RHEL5: RHBA-2012-0167
  • This issue is resolved in the following errata for RHEL6: RHBA-2012-0548
  • This issue is resolved in the following errata for RHEL6: RHBA-2012-0943

Root Cause

There is a problem with the fence_vmware_soap script failing when there is more than 100+ vms.

Diagnostic Steps

List the virtual machines with the fence_vmware_soap command. If there is only a 100 virtual machines returned and there should be 100+ vms returned then you hitting this issue:

$ fence_vmware_soap  --ssl --ip 192.168.2.5 --username Administrator --password mypass --action list | wc -l
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