Thanks Mike.
Checking the storage profile for this VM host, Data Store Path is
/vmfs/volumes/T2_6045_dev_VCL_ds01. That directory is present and
read/write on our ESXi machine.
VM Path is set to (empty). That's what we want if we plan to store
our VM disks alongside our other VM data, right?
A little more information, maybe relevant, maybe not:
I notice that VCL *is* getting to the point of creating a VM directory
in that path. On the hypervisor:
# pwd
/vmfs/volumes/T2_6045_dev_VCL_ds01
# ls |grep 218
vmwarelinux-Linuxtemplate2v218-v0
That directory name appears to have been