Unable to connect virtual NIC in vCloud Air DRaaS

I had a customer open a service request, they were in the middle of a DR test using vCloud Air DRaaS and were unable to connect 1 virtual machine to the network. It kept erroring out with a generic unable to connect error.

It turns out that their VM had a VMDK sized with a decimal point, like 50.21GB instead of just 50GB. I don’t see it often, but this sometimes happens when P2V a machine. The vCloud Director backend can’t handle the decimal point in the disk size, so it errors out.

I’m not entirely sure why the error happens, but the fix is to resize your source disk to a non-decimal number and run replication again.

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