Ive had zero luck with this. I tried to provision some storage on a pod running on the initialized linux nodes and I cant complete this either, likely because the windows nodes arent getting initialized properly from above...

ProvisioningFailed  4s (x2 over 10s)  persistentvolume-controller  Failed to provision volume with StorageClass "vsphere-gold": cloud provider not initialized properly

seems related, but not exactly your issue: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/39060 it might be an ongoing bug

I am a little confused. I see in the linked issue that support has been added, and I have read that windows clusters are supported with the CPI/CSI as long as you select custom when creating the cluster. Is there any way I can work with someone to figure out what might be happening here? It almost seems like something is happening with vmtools on windows nodes that is preventing the plugin from getting the information it needs to initiate properly