[ PCA ] Attempting to Provision Several Compute Nodes at the Same Time Fails with "Error handling compute node " and " TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()"

(Doc ID 2228710.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 05, 2017

Applies to:

Private Cloud Appliance - Version 1.0.1 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

 On Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, all supported releases.

When attempting to provision a large number of Compute Nodes at the same time, one or more of them fail with the following kind of error messages being printed in the /var/log/ovca.log on the active Management Node :

 

Cause

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