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Yes there are 2 ways that you can troubleshoot this the first one are the logs that gets displayed on the vcenter when the vm is getting provisioned other that what you can do is go to the cluster where your rancher UI is deployed and run this command

kubectl logs -f #pod_id -n cattle-system ---> to see the live logs

here the pod id will be of rancher pod as the error you are stuck at "waiting to check in and apply initial plan" that can also mean the nodes have not come up if the nodes are up on vcenter try accessing them and run

kubectl get pods -A

to see if it has started deploying the core pods

just created it manually from a VM

have installed the pre-req on that vmtemplate ?

perhaps not 😕 able to point me in the right direction?

yes let me

I was assuming the rke2 provisioner would manage that somehow

first thing is u need a user account in the vsphere to provision nodes

oh I mean, I have that, the nodes get provisioned

for that just validate if you have these packages installed

thanks very much

feel free to reach out if you have any queries about this

it worked, thank you

Great