Storage Policy ID and Replication Group ID

[barracksbuilder]

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Terraform Version

Terraform v0.12.14

vSphere Provider Version

• provider.local v1.4.0
• provider.vsphere v1.16.2

Affected Resource(s)

Please list the resources as a list, for example:

• vsphere_virtual_machine

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {
  # VMware 5.5 bug tries to change disk sharing each time
  # If you have more than 5 drives add to this list
  # lifecycle {
  #   ignore_changes = [
  #     "disk.0.disk_sharing",
  #     "disk.1.disk_sharing",
  #     "disk.2.disk_sharing",
  #     "disk.3.disk_sharing",
  #     "disk.4.disk_sharing",
  #     "disk.5.disk_sharing"
  #   ]
  # }
  # VM placement
  name = var.vmName

  folder           = var.vmFolder
  resource_pool_id = var.resource_pool_id
  datastore_id     = var.datastore_id
  storage_policy_id = var.storage_policy_id
  guest_id         = var.guest_id
  scsi_type = var.template_scsi

  # VM resources
  num_cpus = var.cpu
  memory   = var.memory

  network_interface {
    network_id = var.network_id
  }

  disk {
    label            = "disk0"
    size             = var.disk_size
    thin_provisioned = var.thin_provisioned
    eagerly_scrub    = var.eagerly_scrub
    storage_policy_id = var.storage_policy_id
  }

  tags = var.tags


  clone {
    template_uuid = var.template_uuid

    customize {
      windows_options {
        computer_name = var.vmName
        admin_password = var.admin_password
        join_domain = var.networkDomain
        domain_admin_user = var.domain_admin_user
        domain_admin_password = var.domain_admin_password
        product_key = var.productKey
        time_zone = 20
      }

      # linux_options {
      #   host_name = var.vmName
      #   domain    = var.networkDomain
      # }

      network_interface {
        ipv4_address    = var.ipv4_address
        ipv4_netmask    = var.ipv4_netmask
        dns_server_list = var.dns_server_list
      }

      ipv4_gateway    = var.ipv4_gateway
      dns_server_list = var.dns_server_list
    }
  }

  provisioner "chef" {
    server_url              = var.chef_var["server_url"]
    user_name               = var.chef_var["user_name"]
    user_key                = var.user_key
    node_name               = var.vmName
    environment             = var.chef_environment
    run_list                = var.chef_runlist
    recreate_client         = var.chef_var["recreate_client"]
    on_failure              = continue
    ssl_verify_mode         = var.chef_var["ssl_verify_mode_setting"]
    ohai_hints              = ["windows", "vmware"]
    version                 = "14"
    fetch_chef_certificates = true
    log_to_file = true
    client_options = [
      "chef_license 'accept'"
    ]

    connection {
      type     = var.windows_var["connection_type"]
      user     = var.windows_var["user"]
      password = var.windows_var["password"]
      host = var.ipv4_address
      insecure = true
    }
  }

Debug Output

Error: error cloning virtual machine: A general system error occurred: PBM error occurred during PreCloneCheckCallback: pbm.fault.PBMFault; Missing or empty replication spec information in policy

Panic Output

None

Expected Behavior

Clone template to vm using storage policy.

Actual Behavior

Error: error cloning virtual machine: A general system error occurred: PBM error occurred during PreCloneCheckCallback: pbm.fault.PBMFault; Missing or empty replication spec information in policy

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

This is trying to clone into a virtual volume which has a Replication policy that needs to be set. I have not found a way to set the replication policy ID. The template is also stored on the virtual volume if this matters.

References

[neogen19]

Could someone please guide me on this? I am having a similar issue while deploying VMs on virtual volumes and unable to select replication group for the defined storage policy.

[neogen19]

@bill-rich : sorry I am not sure whom to redirect the question. Any direction you could provide will be greatly appreciated.