vOne/ON5.4: "ManagedObjectNotFound: The object 'vim.VirtualMachine:0' has already been deleted or has not been completely created

On vOne 3.0.1 appliance with vCenter/ESX 6.5

  • On new vOne deployment, import host, datastore, network + 1 VMware image
  • Create a VM template in vOne
  • Create instance of this template

Current results:
Creation fails. log says:

Tue Sep  5 20:47:49 2017 [Z0][VMM][D]: Message received: LOG E 1 Deploy of VM 1 on vCenter cluster     vCluster-382080-01_[foobar.com-382123_Murks_G
mbH]_d28233279365 with /var/lib/one/vms/1/deployment.0 failed due to "ManagedObjectNotFound: The object 'vim.VirtualMachine:0' has already been deleted or has not
 been completely created"

 Tue Sep  5 20:47:49 2017 [Z0][VMM][D]: Message received: LOG E 1  ["/usr/lib/one/ruby/vendors/rbvmomi/lib/rbvmomi/connection.rb:61:in `parse_response'", "/usr/lib/one/ruby/vendors/rbvmomi/lib/rbvmomi/connection.rb:90:in `call'", "/usr/lib/one/ruby/vendors/rbvmomi/lib/rbvmomi/basic_types.rb:211:in `_call'", "/usr/lib/one/rub
y/vendors/rbvmomi/lib/rbvmomi/basic_types.rb:74:in `block (2 levels) in init'", "/usr/lib/one/ruby/vendors/rbvmomi/lib/rbvmomi/basic_types.rb:189:in `_get_propert
y'", "/usr/lib/one/ruby/vendors/rbvmomi/lib/rbvmomi/basic_types.rb:35:in `block (2 levels) in init'", "/usr/lib/one/ruby/vcenter_driver/virtual_machine.rb:1119:in
 `clone_vm'", "/var/lib/one/remotes/vmm/vcenter/deploy:61:in `<main>'"]

Tue Sep  5 20:47:49 2017 [Z0][VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 1 ExitCode: 255

Expected results:
Deployment succeeds

Right now I’m stumped.