Error: "More than one network with the name none is present in the inventory" when creating VMs from templates on a newly deployed cluster in VMware Cloud Director

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

 

• Issue may occur when attempting to deploy VMs from existing templates in a newly created cluster within VMware Cloud Director (VCD).

• VM creation fails during the fast provisioning process (linked clone), specifically at the shadow VM creation phase.

• The issue is caused by multiple 'none' networks present across different datacenters under the same vCenter.

• Affects environments where vApp templates previously worked, but fail after onboarding new clusters or resource pools.

• Error seen in logs:
  
  com.vmware.ssdc.library.exceptions.CreateShadowVmException:
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException:
More than one network with the name none is present in the inventory
  
  

 

Environment

• VMware Cloud Director 10.x

Cause

This issue can occur when multiple standard networks named 'none' exist across datacenters under a single vCenter.
VCD attempts to resolve the 'none' network by name only, which fails due to ambiguity, resulting in shadow VM creation failure.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in the VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1.2 release.