VMware ESXi 7.0 / DVS refresh issue

[jbarson47]

Hello,

We are experiencing issues in each of our deployments around the globe with VMs on distributed switches on ESXi 7.0+. After a VM is provisioned, all info appears as usual except when inspecting VLAN names under "Devices". The associated LANs are empty for all network adapters, causing issues with automation that leverages the VMDB this way, such as determining if a LAN is unused for example. It appears that due to the streaming refresh ManageIQ performs, since vCenter does not log out the specific VLANs that are on the network adapters for each VM, ManageIQ is not able to gather the VLAN names and thus the lans attribute for these VMs shows as empty (this only appears to be the case for distributed switches - VMs on standard switches do not demonstrate the same behavior).

Example devices view shown below - the "Network: ..." piece after Default Adapter is missing.

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[agrare]

I believe this is the same issue as ManageIQ/manageiq-providers-vmware#865
@jbarson47 if you could try applying the patch in this comment that would be very helpful thanks