"You need to select either sizing or placement compute policy" error appear when trying to change VGPU policy to General policy in Cloud Director 10.4.2.x and 10.5 versions

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

when changing a VM VGPU policy to the General policy fails with error message:

"You need to select either sizing or placement compute policy."

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.x

Cause

This is a UI defect affecting VMware Cloud Director 10.4.2.x and 10.5 versions.

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting VMware Cloud Director 10.4.2.x and 10.5 versions.

Issue will be resolved in a later release of Cloud Director.

For a possible workaround, please use the workaround provided in the Workaround section.

Workaround:

If your VDC has one or more custom VM sizing / placement policies assigned, a drop box appears where you can select either of those, but also the System Default one.