[BUG] Unable to run govc disk.ls or govc disk.ls -R

[jespinosaitrs]

Describe the bug
I am unable to run govc disk.ls or govc disk.ls -R. Both fail with the same error:

$ govc disk.ls
govc: 0b5dfeb3-3b76-44c0-a183-6e082734eba5 not found: use 'disk.ls -R' to reconcile datastore inventory

$ govc disk.ls -R
govc: 0b5dfeb3-3b76-44c0-a183-6e082734eba5 not found: use 'disk.ls -R' to reconcile datastore inventory

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run govc disk.ls or govc disk-ls -R.
2. Wait a few moments.
3. The error govc: 0b5dfeb3-3b76-44c0-a183-6e082734eba5 not found: use 'disk.ls -R' to reconcile datastore inventory is shown.

Expected behavior
The commands should finish without errors and display the disks or reconcile the disks.

Affected version

$ brew info govc
==> govc: stable 0.46.2 (bottled)
Command-line tool for VMware vSphere

Screenshots/Debug Output

types.RetrieveVStorageObject{
    This: types.ManagedObjectReference{Type:"VcenterVStorageObjectManager", Value:"VStorageObjectManager", ServerGUID:""},
    Id:   types.ID{
        Id: "0b5dfeb3-3b76-44c0-a183-6e082734eba5",
    },
    Datastore:     types.ManagedObjectReference{Type:"Datastore", Value:"datastore-24", ServerGUID:""},
    DiskInfoFlags: nil,
}
&soap.Fault{
    XMLName: xml.Name{Space:"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/", Local:"Fault"},
    Code:    "ServerFaultCode",
    String:  "The object or item referred to could not be found.",
    Detail:  struct { Fault types.AnyType "xml:\",any,typeattr\"" }{},
}

Additional context
There are two other identical issues in the repository that were marked as closed:

• [BUG] Reconcile of disks doesn't work - govc disk.ls -R #2648
• Unable to list FCD's in a Tanzu environment with "govc disk.ls" #3143

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[tenthirtyam]

Please update the title from "[BUG]", please.

[jespinosaitrs]

@tenthirtyam Sorry about that, I forgot to put something in it.

[dougm]

@jespinosaitrs what is your vCenter version? govc about | grep FullName

How are your disks created and managed, CNS Volumes or ?
iirc, there was a bug at some point (since fixed) with the ReconcileDatastoreInventory impl. We use that API with the disk.ls -R flag.

Either way, we can add a flag to change the error to warning and/or ignored as discussed here:
#2648 (comment)

[jespinosaitrs]

@dougm Here are the details:

$ govc about | grep FullName
FullName:     VMware vCenter Server 8.0.3 build-24091160

As for the disks, I would say most of them are CNS volumes.

And as long as the tool can output the list of disk I'm fine with any fixes. What I'm trying to do is some scripting to identify and cleanup some orphan disks but not getting even a partial output is making that difficult.

[dougm]

@jespinosaitrs please review #3659