Description of problem:

If the vSphere datastore in the install-config includes a folder which alters the full/relatve path such as

/Workload Datacenter/datastore/WORKLOAD-DS-Folder/WORKLOAD-DS

or:

WORKLOAD-DS-Folder/WORKLOAD-DS

then OCP 4.12.z deployment will fail. This OCP deployment was done using ACM/Hive.

Note: The relative path (e.g. WORKLOAD-DS) does work. Summary of combinations tried in the table:

For OCP 4.12.z managed clusters deployments name-only path is the only one that works as expected.
For OCP 4.13.z+ managed cluster deployments only full name works as expected.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.8.1-DOWNSTREAM-2023-06-15-22-17-59

2.7.5

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. create a vSphere credential that specifies the full or relative path for the datastore, where a folder is present
2. create a vSphere cluster on OCP 4.12.z using ACM
3. ...

Actual results:

deployment fails with error

Expected results:

• deploying with either full or relative path should work

Additional info:

• deploying with datastore name only does work for OCP 4.12
• deploying with either full path, relative path or datastore name only works for OCP 4.13