Cloud Provider Services Plugin failure

[Joel Finger]

I have 2 v7 vCenters in enhanced linked mode. Recently, one of the vCenters needed an updated Machine Certificate. Since updating the Machine Certificate on one, the other now complains a couple of times per hour when trying to deploy the VMware Cloud Provider Service Plugin. The message is Below. I can't find any relevant hits on the web to fix this. I fully suspect there is something that needs to accept the Machine Certificate on the other vCenter, since this started after the cert replacement. I have looked in the Managed Object Browser, but nothing jumped out at me there.

Thanks in advance - Joel

Cannot complete the operation. See the event log for details. Error downloading plug-in. URL is unreachable. org.apache.http.client.HttpResponseException: status code: 422, reason phrase: Unprocessable Entity org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractResponseHandler.handleResponse(AbstractResponseHandler.java:70) org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:223) org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:165) org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:140) com.vmware.vise.plugin.download.PluginDownloadServiceImpl.downloadPackageInfo(PluginDownloadServiceImpl.java:304) com.vmware.vise.plugin.download.PluginDownloadServiceImpl.download(PluginDownloadServiceImpl.java:170) com.vmware.vise.plugin.async.task.PluginDownloadTask.run(PluginDownloadTask.java:73) java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncRun.run(CompletableFuture.java:1640) com.vmware.vise.util.concurrent.QueuingCachedThreadPool$2.call(QueuingCachedThreadPool.java:873) java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) com.vmware.vise.util.concurrent.QueuingCachedThreadPool$QueueProcessor.run(QueuingCachedThreadPool.java:1271) java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) com.vmware.vise.util.concurrent.WorkerThreadFactory$1.run(WorkerThreadFactory.java:64) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)

[Joel Finger]

I ended up opening a support case. I was directed to:
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/344648
I did speak with support and confirmed that we are not needing this plugin. We proceeded to remove this plugin, as well as several other plugins that were no longer wanted. With linked vCenter, I shut both down, took a snapshot, powered back on. Next, go into MOB and unregistered "com.vmware.cloud.provider.services.plugin". After restarting vsphere-ui, I no longer have this plugin and no more errors.