Provisioning fails with "Resource is not found" when blueprints contain unsupported properties.

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• Provisioning of deployments failing with error "Resource is not found" while using "subnet" as a property within blueprint.

provisioning.log
2025-02-21T15:09:14.560Z WARN provisioning [host='provisioning-service-app-#######-#####' thread='xn-index-queries-19' user='' org='' trace='' parent='' span=''] unknown.jul.logger.logWarning:433 - Error while provisioning. Resource is not found, it may have been deleted. Error: [java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert com.vmware.xenon.common.ServiceErrorResponse to com.vmware.photon.controller.model.resources.SubnetService$SubnetState

Environment

Aria Automation 8.x

Cause

Restricted custom property used within the blueprint causing deployment to fail. Custom properties/keyword has their respective values internally and hence if used that may result in unexpected failure.

Resolution

Refrain using the listed custom property/keyword which may result in unexpected failure of the deployment.

"volumeType", "provisioningType", "persistentDiskType", "iops", "endpointType", "diskKind", "isSDRSEnabled", "dataStore", "storageAccountName",
"managedDiskType", "network", "gateway", "netmask", "ipAssignmentType", "azureManagedDiskType", "image", "imageId", "imageRef", "snapshotLimit",
"customizationSpec", "vcUuid", "isAllocation", "coreCount", "cpuCount","affinity", "resourceGroupName", "gatewayAddress", "dnsServerAddresses",
"dnsSearchDomains", "placement", "securityPolicyId", "securityPolicyName","memoryInMB", "type", "storagePolicy", "zoneLink", "regionLink",
"flavorProfileId", "imageProfileId", "resourceName", "diskType", "osType","awaitIp", "clusterSize", "hostName", "ipAddress", "subnet", "networkType",
"maxDiskCapacityInGB", "networkCidr", "mac_address"