Add support for target cluster that exists in a host folder

[powercleee]

Describe the bug

During the deployment of the VCF Installer appliance to a vCenter Server, it will fail if the target cluster exists in a host folder hierarchy under the Datacenter object. The code assumes the cluster exists directly under the Datacenter object.

Example hierarchy:

Datacenter > Host Folder > Target Cluster

Reproduction steps

Error received:

Opening OVA source: /holodeck-runtime/bin/9.0/VCF-SDDC-Manager-Appliance-9.0.0.0.24703748.ova
The manifest validates
Error: Locator does not refer to an object: vi://user%40domain.local@lab1vc01.domain.local:443/DATACENTER/host/CLUSTER
Completed with errors
07-07-2025 20:28:36  VCFInstaller[14426]: [ERROR] VCF Installer deployment failed
07-07-2025 20:28:36  VCFInstaller[14426]: [ERROR] Failed to deploy OVF template after 6 retries. Terminating

In this case, the destination needed to be:

vi://user%40domain.local@lab1vc01.domain.local:443/DATACENTER/host/FOLDER/CLUSTER

Please see recommended code changes below.

Expected behavior

The following code needs to be modified to support this configuration:

In the "Holodeck" PowerShell module, the VcfInstaller.psm1 function, starting at line 53, add the following block to build the full folder hierarchy:

$cluster_name = $target_host.cluster

# Build the full cluster path including any host folders
try {
    $cluster_obj = Get-Cluster -Name $cluster_name
    $path_parts = @($cluster_obj.Name)

    # Traverse up the parent folder hierarchy until we reach the host folder
    $current_folder = $cluster_obj.ParentFolder
    while ($current_folder -and $current_folder.Name -ne "host") {
        $path_parts = @($current_folder.Name) + $path_parts
        $current_folder = $current_folder.ParentFolder
    }

    $cls = $path_parts -join "/"
    Write-Log -Message "Using cluster path: $cls"
}
catch {
    Write-Log -Message "Could not get cluster object, using cluster name directly: $cluster_name" -Level "WARN"
    $cls = $cluster_name
}

This is right before the ovftool block.

Additional context

No response

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

Great find. Thank you for pointing this out. We will validate and get this fixed in the next iteration.

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

This is now fixed with the release of Holodeck 9.0.1 (#57). Thank you for providing input into this issue and working with us on this.