Importing Vcentre resource causes recreation of imported vm

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Iam testing out various scenarios with Terraform using Vsphere virtual machine as a backend.

I am able to do green field deployments and able to change settings, but I am now testing to import existing vm’s.

I am using a variable collection to handle my organisation of VMs. So for example I have this as my resource.

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "worker" {
    for_each = {for vm , vm_data in var.worker: vm => vm_data }
    name = each.value.name
    resource_pool_id = data.vsphere_compute_cluster.cluster.resource_pool_id
    datastore_id = data.vsphere_datastore.datastore.id
    folder = vsphere_folder.folder.path
    
    num_cpus = var.vm-cpu-worker
    memory = var.vm-ram-worker
    guest_id = var.vm-guest-id
    cpu_hot_add_enabled = true
    cpu_hot_remove_enabled = true
    memory_hot_add_enabled = true
    network_interface {
        network_id = data.vsphere_network.network.id
    }

    disk {
        label = "disk0"
        size  = 100
    }

    clone {
        template_uuid = data.vsphere_virtual_machine.template.id
        timeout = 60
        customize {
            timeout = 0
            
            linux_options {
            host_name = each.value.name
            domain = var.vm-domain
            }
            
            network_interface {
            ipv4_address =  each.value.ip_address
            ipv4_netmask = 24
            }

            ipv4_gateway = "192.168.1.203"
            dns_server_list = [ "192.168.1.234", "192.168.1.235" ]
        }
    }
}

and I have this in my terraform.tfvars.

worker = [
    {
      ip_address = "192.168.1.239" 
      name       = "KUBE-WORKER1"
    },
    {
      ip_address = "192.168.1.237" 
      name       = "KUBE-WORKER2"
    },
    {
      ip_address = "192.168.1.127" 
      name       = "KUBE-WORKER3"
    }
]

I have the variables in my variables.tf

So i import in my machine from VMware like so:

terraform import vsphere_virtual_machine.worker[“2”] “/Prometheus/vm/Kubernetes Applications/KUBE-WORKER3”

When I do a plan it shows that it will remove this VM and recreate it.

I am trying to figure out why.

Many thanks in advance for any help for any help. ]

regards,

WY