Nested Blueprints and Cloned Virtual Machines: Provisioning Failure Troubleshooting

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When deploying a catalog item with nested blueprints using cloned virtual machines, there could be various reasons why provisioning might fail. However, among the given options, the most plausible reason for failure would be option C, which is "The virtual machine template used in the nested blueprint does NOT exist in any of the reservations for that user."

Here's why:

In vRealize Automation, when deploying a catalog item that includes a nested blueprint, vRealize Automation first provisions the resources defined in the parent blueprint and then provisions the resources defined in the child blueprint(s). When provisioning the resources in the child blueprint(s), vRealize Automation uses the virtual machine templates specified in the blueprint(s).

In this scenario, if the virtual machine template specified in the nested blueprint does not exist in any of the reservations available for that user, provisioning will fail. This is because vRealize Automation is unable to find a suitable virtual machine template to use for provisioning the resources in the child blueprint(s).

Option A ("One of the approvers has NOT responded to the approval request") is not a likely reason for provisioning failure in this scenario, as the question does not mention any approval workflows.

Option B ("The entitlement does NOT have the nested blueprint as one of the entitled items") is also not a likely reason for provisioning failure in this scenario, as the entitlement specifies the catalog items and blueprints that a user or group is entitled to, and does not affect the availability of virtual machine templates.

Option D ("The template virtual machine has more snapshots than vRealize Automation allows") is not a likely reason for provisioning failure in this scenario, as the number of snapshots on a virtual machine template does not affect vRealize Automation's ability to provision resources from that template.