Satellite provisioning to VMware vSphere Failed to create a compute instance: NoPermission

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When provisioning a new virtual machine from Red Hat Satellite, the build sometimes fails and this error is displayed in /var/log/foreman/production.log

    Failed to create a compute vmware-compute (VMware) instance newvm.example.org: NoPermission

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.x
  • VMware vSphere 6.x
  • VMware vSphere 7.x

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