I am trying to run the flash certification test
The ESXi server is installed on one of our XEON D CPU boards which has an SD Card interface that uses an SD to USB device so the flash appears as a USB device
The Configration, TLS Check, and flash basic tests pass but the flash durability fails after around 30 seconds with
2018-05-30 17:39:58 UTC [ MAIN ] [0] ERROR: Trouble creating test instance, Failed to get the Product version for esxi.cam.eurotech.local. Error: @SDT/{:628::6:result@SDT/$0:0::9:exception@SDT/$S:30:java.lang.NullPointerException:7:errDesc@SDT/$S:30:Possible issue with STAF code::6:errMsg@SDT/$0:0::9:rootCause@SDT/$0:0::8:reqIdStr@SDT/$S:33:ssl://localhost@6550:vtaf_host:36:9:startTime@SDT/$S:22:05/30/2018 02:45:16 PM:7:endTime@SDT/$S:22:05/30/2018 02:45:16 PM:8:stkTrace@SDT/$S:251:com.vmware.qa.staf.vc.host.STAFHost.getHostVersion(STAFHost.java:395) ## com.vmware.qa.staf.vc.host.HostSTAFService.handleGetHostValue(HostSTAFService.java:6564) ## com.vmware.qa.staf.vc.host.HostSTAFService.acceptRequest(HostSTAFService.java:748) ## :13:rootException@SDT/$0:0::7:dbgInfo@SDT/$0:0:........................................................................................................
What I also notice is that although the flashbasic test passes I see this in the workbench console
2018-05-30 17:39:14 UTC [ UTILITY ] [0] ERROR: RC: 5001 ErrDesc: Possible issue with STAF code: Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException Trace: com.vmware.vcqa.vim.ComputeResource.getConfigurationEx(ComputeResource.java:281) ## com.vmware.qa.staf.vc.host.STAFHost.SetSwapFileLocation(STAFHost.java:8996) ## com.vmware.qa.staf.vc.host.HostSTAFService.handlesetSwapFileLocationFromHost(HostSTAFService.java:12082) ## com.vmware.qa.staf.vc.host.HostSTAFService.acceptRequest(HostSTAFService.java:875) ## ...........
2018-05-30 17:39:14 UTC [ LOGMANAGEM] [0] WARN: Failed to stop monitoring of log /var/log/vmkernel.log
2018-05-30 17:39:14 UTC Received the following error: STAFIsProcessRunning: Couldn't query the STAF process 46 on host esxi.cam.eurotech.local. STAF RC: 5
2018-05-30 17:39:14 UTC [ LOGMANAGEM] [0] WARN: Failed to retrieve log files from esxi.cam.eurotech.local ([exception base])...
2018-05-30 17:39:14 UTC [ LOGMANAGEM] [0] WARN: Failed to stop monitoring of log /var/log/hostd.log
2018-05-30 17:39:14 UTC Received the following error: STAFIsProcessRunning: Couldn't query the STAF process 49 on host esxi.cam.eurotech.local. STAF RC: 5
2018-05-30 17:39:25 UTC [ LOGMANAGEM] [0] WARN: Failed to retrieve log files from esxi.cam.eurotech.local ([exception base])..............................................................................................................................