Aria Automation deployment fails with “No elements matching the input pattern found” due to folder name collision in vCenter folder structure

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Aria Automation deployments may fail with the following error message:

Provisioning Operation Failed. No elements matching the input pattern found

This failure typically occurs during clone operations or disk additions and is associated with specific naming conditions in the vCenter datastore folder structure.

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.18.1 Patch 2 and below.

Cause

A code defect causes provisioning operations to fail when the destination storage cluster is located inside a folder with the same name.

For example, the following structure will trigger the issue:

vCenter > Datacenter > FolderName1 > FolderName2 > FolderName2

 

During provisioning, this naming collision causes pattern matching to fail, resulting in the provisioning error.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in VMware Aria Automation 8.18.1 Patch 3.

Resolution

• Upgrade your environment to 8.18.1 Patch 3 once available.

Workaround

If you are unable to upgrade immediately, apply one of the following workarounds:

• Rename the folder: Modify the folder name in the storage hierarchy so that it does not match the datastore cluster name.

• Rename the storage cluster: Use a unique name for the cluster that does not conflict with folder names.

After making the change, redeploy the workload.