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Check the rke2-server logs and pod logs for errors. I suspect that your main problem is that all in-tree cloud providers have been removed, so vsphere is an invalid cloud provider name. You can set it to rancher-vsphere to deploy the vsphere CPI and csi charts bundled with rke2.

also try using

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rather than

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thanks for the reply on this. My issue was related to the system-default-registry. Once I switched to using public images it was sorted.