Provisioning a RHEL 8 host with Satellite fails on VMware vSphere 6.5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When attempting to use Red Hat Satellite 6.5 or later to provision Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on a new VMware virtual machine from vSphere Version 6.5, the provision attempt fails and displays the following error:
        Failed to create a compute vSphere resource (VMware) 
        instance *newinstance.example.com:* InvalidArgument: A specified parameter 
        was not correct: configSpec.guestId

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.5 or later
  • VMware vSphere 6.5

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