when there is a Datacenter in the vCenter with no datastore associated with it, nova boot fails even though there are data-centers configured properly.
The log error trace
Error from last host: devstack (node domain-c162(Demo-1)): [u'Traceback (most recent call last):\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1322, in _build_instance\n set_access_ip=set_access_ip)\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 399, in decorated_function\n return function(self, context, *args, **kwargs)\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1734, in _spawn\n LOG.exception(_(\'Instance failed to spawn\'), instance=instance)\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/excutils.py", line 68, in __exit__\n six.reraise(self.type_, self.value, self.tb)\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1731, in _spawn\n block_device_info)\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/driver.py", line 619, in spawn\n admin_password, network_info, block_device_info)\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/vmops.py", line 211, in spawn\n dc_info = self.get_datacenter_ref_and_name(data_store_ref)\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/vmops.py", line 1715, in get_datacenter_ref_and_name\n self._update_datacenter_cache_from_objects(dcs)\n', u' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/vmops.py", line 1693, in _update_datacenter_cache_from_objects\n datastore_refs = p.val.ManagedObjectReference\n', u"AttributeError: 'Text' object has no attribute 'ManagedObjectReference'\n"]
2014-04-04 03:05:41.629 WARNING nova.scheduler.driver [req-cc690e5a-2bf3-4566-a697-30ca882df815 nova service] [instance: f0abb23a-943a-475d-ac63-69d2563362cb] Setting instance to ERROR state.
Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https:/