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Empty Task ID for the dpmvc virtualswitch Command

Symptom:

When I run the dpmvc virtualswitch command, the result shows an empty task ID.

Solution:

This operation does not run asynchronously, and the result gets back immediately. However, the PMM treats the operation as a tasked operation. Therefore the response contains a task ID, but it is always an empty string (“”).

For example, when you run the following command from the CLI, you get an empty task ID:

dpmvc virtualswitch -vs_add -vc_server MYVC5 -switch_name XYZ 
-esx_host_name MYESX -ws_user admin -ws_password ca_admin

CLI output:

...
SC URL: https://VASManager/aip/sc
VC URL: https://VASManager:443/aip/vc
Task ID:
Command execution successful

Other commands like dpmvc faulttolerance or dpmvc distributedswitch run asynchronously and you get a task ID.