Packer Version 1.5.6 vsphere-iso creating vm: ServerFaultCode: Permission to perform this operation was denied HELP

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May 22, 2020, 4:15:02 PM5/22/20
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I have admin level access in the vsphere environment but I keep getting the permissions denied error below. I posted the debug error logging message below and a snippet of my code. One thing I do have in my vars, the "vsphere_cluster"  in vsphere 6.7 has spaces in its name. Can that be causing the error ....


vsphere-iso: output will be in this color.
2020/05/22 16:01:45 Build debug mode: false
2020/05/22 16:01:45 Force build: false
2020/05/22 16:01:45 On error:
2020/05/22 16:01:45 Preparing build: vsphere-iso

2020/05/22 16:01:46 Waiting on builds to complete...
2020/05/22 16:01:46 Starting build run: vsphere-iso
2020/05/22 16:01:46 Running builder: vsphere-iso
2020/05/22 16:01:46 [INFO] (telemetry) Starting builder vsphere-iso
2020/05/22 16:01:46 packer-provisioner-ansible plugin: ansible-playbook version: 2.9.9
==> vsphere-iso: Creating VM...
Build 'vsphere-iso' errored: error creating vm: ServerFaultCode: Permission to perform this operation was denied.
2020/05/22 16:01:46 [INFO] (telemetry) ending vsphere-iso
2020/05/22 16:01:46 machine readable: error-count []string{"1"}
==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
2020/05/22 16:01:46 machine readable: vsphere-iso,error []string{"error creating vm: ServerFaultCode: Permission to perform this operation was denied."}
==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
2020/05/22 16:01:46 [INFO] (telemetry) Finalizing.
--> vsphere-iso: error creating vm: ServerFaultCode: Permission to perform this operation was denied.








{
"vsphere_network": "dev-VLAN-34",
"vsphere_cluster": "servers - Dev",
"vsphere_resource_pool": "dev-pool",
"vsphere_datastore": "dev-01",
"vpshere_host": "host.redacted.com"
}




{
"builders": [
{
            "type": "vsphere-iso",

            "vcenter_server": "vcenter.redacted.com",
            "username": "user",
            "password": "xxxxxxxx",
            "insecure_connection": "true",

            "vm_name": "buildlinuxvm",
            "datastore": "{{user `vsphere_datastore`}}",
            "cluster": "{{user `vsphere_cluster`}}",
            "host": "{{user `vsphere_host`}}",


            "convert_to_template": "true",
            "network": "{{user `vsphere_network`}}",
            "boot_order": "disk,cdrom",

            "guest_os_type": "ubuntu64Guest",

            "ssh_username": "jetbrains",
            "ssh_password": "jetbrains",

            "CPUs": 1,
            "RAM": 1024,

            "disk_controller_type": "pvscsi",
            "disk_size": 10240,
            "disk_thin_provisioned": true,
            "network_card": "vmxnet3",

            "iso_paths": [
                "[ngadev-unify-01] packer_cache/ubuntu-18.04.4-server-amd64.iso"
            ],
            "iso_checksum": "e2ecdace33c939527cbc9e8d23576381c493b071107207d2040af72595f8990b",
            "iso_checksum_type": "sha256sum",

            "floppy_files": [
            "./http/preseed_server.cfg"
            ],
            "boot_command": [
                "<enter><wait><f6><wait><esc><wait>",
                "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
                "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
                "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
                "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
                "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
                "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
                "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
                "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
                "<bs><bs><bs>",
                "/install/vmlinuz",
                " initrd=/install/initrd.gz",
                " priority=critical",
                " locale=en_US",
                " file=/media/preseed_server.cfg",
                "<enter>"
            ]
        }
    ],


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