Failing in attach tag during OVA import on vSphere 7 on an OpenShift 4.10 IPI deployment

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

OpenShift installer tries to attach a tag during the OVA import process into vSphere 7 and gets the following error message:

ERROR Error: failed to attach tag to virtual machine: POST https://<vcenter url>/rest/com/vmware/cis/tagging/tag-association/id:urn:vmomi:InventoryServiceTag:6c9993a9-0f25-4478-8eb9-be62ac210972:GLOBAL?~action=attach: 403 Forbidden
ERROR
ERROR on ../../../tmp/openshift-install-pre-bootstrap-121097777/main.tf line 43, in resource "vsphereprivate_import_ova" "import":
ERROR 43: resource "vsphereprivate_import_ova" "import" {
ERROR
ERROR
FATAL failed to fetch Cluster: failed to generate asset "Cluster": failed to create cluster: failed to apply Terraform: failed to complete the change

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.10.x
  • VMware vSphere 7.x (IPI Installation)

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