Issue: vsphere_virtual_machine Fails with NoPermission Error During Cloning

[Sam-Eldin]

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Terraform

1.11.0

Terraform Provider

1.5.7

VMware vSphere

2.8.1

Description

When attempting to create a new VM using the vsphere_virtual_machine resource, the process intermittently fails during the cloning phase with a NoPermission error.

Affected Resources or Data Sources

resource/vsphere_virtual_machine

Terraform Configuration

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "devops" {
  name             = "vm-random-name"
  resource_pool_id = "resgroup-2679946"
  datastore_cluster_id   = "group-p1289337"
  num_cpus = 4
  memory   = 16384
  guest_id = "rhel9_64Guest"
  scsi_type = "pvscsi"
  firmware = "efi"
  network_interface {
    network_id   = "dvportgroup-751218"
    adapter_type = "vmxnet3"
  }
  disk {
    label            = "disk0"
    size             = 140
    eagerly_scrub    = false
    thin_provisioned = true
  }
  clone {
    template_uuid = "42025960-08fd-4a20-3eb2-cf33b5485525"
  }
}

Debug Output

Logs

Panic Output

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Expected Behavior

The VM provisioning should complete successfully regardless of the log level.

Actual Behavior

Running terraform apply with INFO log level always fails with the NoPermission error.
Running terraform apply with TRACE log level results in a ~90% success rate.
Attached are the TRACE logs for both a successful and a failed provisioning attempt.

Steps to Reproduce

Run terraform apply with INFO logging → consistently fails.
Run terraform apply with TRACE logging → succeeds most of the time (~90% success rate).

Environment Details

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Screenshots

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References

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