Symptoms:
The cloned virtual machines' VMDK file(s) will be pointed to the VMDK file(s) of the source machine used for the clone
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.7.x
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 7.0.x
The issue is seen if the clone operation matches the below conditions:
Clone operation is performed via HTML5 client
Source VM has disk.EnableUUID = TRUE parameter
VMware is aware of this issue and working to resolve this in a future release.
To work around this issue, Power off VM before initiating the clone operation
Power on operation of the Cloned machine fails.