vSphere Provider: Could Not Find resource pool ID

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Using the vSphere provider, I’m trying to use Terraform to create a simple VM before moving onto something more complex.

In my case, my vCenter has 2 standalone hosts, no clusters. Each host is in their own datacenter. govc ls -l -i /Lab/host/vm-02.jaxon.ca/Resources returns
ResourcePool:resgroup-6131 /Lab/host/vm-02.jaxon.ca/Resources

The error I’m getting is:

vsphere_virtual_machine.vm: Creating...

Error: could not find resource pool ID "data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id": ServerFaultCode: The object 'vim.ResourcePool:data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id' has already been deleted or has not been completely created

  on vm-create.tf line 32, in resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm":
  32: resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {

The relevant sections of my file are:

data "vsphere_resource_pool" "pool" {
    name = "/Lab/host/vm-02.jaxon.ca/Resources"
    datacenter_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.dc.id}"
}

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {
    name = "test-vm"
    resource_pool_id = "data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id"
    datastore_id = "data.vsphere_datastore.datastore.id"

I’ve tried all sorts of different things for the resource pool name, including just vm-02.jaxon.ca/Resources but the error is all the same.

Hopefully I’m not missing something obvious but I’m pretty new at this so that is an option too.

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Nevermind. Looks like the vSphere provider still requires a deprecated format.

resource_pool_id = "${data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id}" is still required.

I thought I was doing myself a favour by starting off without any deprecated warnings during plan and apply but in this case it bit me.

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data "vsphere_resource_pool" "pool" {
#If datacenter has only one exsi server then use it
#name          = "Resources"
#If datacenter has more then one exsi server then use it. This is Esxi server where VM will be created.
  name          = "${var.vsphere-host}/Resources"
  datacenter_id = data.vsphere_datacenter.dc.id

vsphere-host = variable name
for direct testing you can place IP of Esxi server in place of “${var.vsphere-host}” like
name ="0.0.0.0.0/Resources"

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