Packer cannot find network in vCenter

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I'm trying to run a Packer build to get a windows 10 template for Horizon VDI. My build runs fine in our lab environment, but in our production environment, it cannot find the correct network. There are several networks with the same name so I am specifying the entire path down to the correct network. Using the same structure that worked without issues in our lab environment, it does not work in the production environment.

The error that comes back is: Invalid configuration for device '0'.

I cannot use a different network for the production vCenter.

When I cut it down to just the network name, it comes back with an error: path '' resolves to multiples provide a host to match or full network path.

The path I'm using is, essentially: //network//

Again, this works in our test vCenter, but not production. If anyone has run into this issue before, I'd appreciate any advice.

[jpinto13]

As added context for the problem described above, we are following the notes from documentation:
"[network] (string) - Set the network in which the VM will be connected to. If no network is specified, host must be specified to allow Packer to look for the available network. If the network is inside a network folder in vCenter, you need to provide the full path to the network."
As stated the path we use goes: "/DC/network/dvswitch/distributedportgroup", while using this string in our code packer fails with the error stated before. We need to identify how to provide the string for a Distributed Port Group that the same name is use on a different dvswitch inside the same Datacenter just like the below:

• /DC1/network/dvswitch1/distributedportgroup1
• /DC1/network/dvswitch2/distributedportgroup1
• /DC1/network/dvswitch3/distributedportgroup1

Thank you in advance for the assistance

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This issue has been migrated to hashicorp/packer-plugin-vsphere#213 due to the Packer Plugin split.

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