# vSphere node folder never found when creating cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\ **Created:** [July 3, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997 "2018-07-03T20:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ml2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ml2](https://forums.suse.com/u/ml2)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997/1 "2018-07-03T20:46:32Z")
I’m trying to create a vSphere cluster. In my node template, for the field Folder " Folder for the VM. This folder must already exist in the datacenter." I entered: /rancher But I always receive this message: > [node-controller] failed with : Error with pre-create check: “folder ‘/ha-datacenter/vm/rancher’ not found” I tried on my datastore1 to create the /rancher folder and I also tried to create /ha-datacenter/vm/rancher but nothing worked. Am I missing something ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![ml2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ml2](https://forums.suse.com/u/ml2)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997/2 "2018-07-04T13:18:00Z")
I left the field blank and now it works. I’m not sure I understand how this field works. ---
**Author:** ![macdja38](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/macdja38/32/4267_2.png) [@macdja38](https://forums.suse.com/u/macdja38)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997/3 "2018-07-05T19:46:36Z")
Thank you very much, apparently leaving it blank was the answer… Why didn’t I think of that… ---
**Author:** ![ml2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@ml2](https://forums.suse.com/u/ml2)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997/4 "2018-07-05T20:17:46Z")
It took me a while tool 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sudarshanvreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sudarshanvreddy](https://forums.suse.com/u/sudarshanvreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997/5 "2018-12-13T07:04:14Z")
What is the configuration if we have to add a specific folder??? ---
**Author:** ![Marek\_Kusmirczak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/marek_kusmirczak/32/5876_2.png) [@Marek\_Kusmirczak](https://forums.suse.com/u/Marek_Kusmirczak)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997/6 "2019-12-06T14:44:41Z")
We have the same problem. On Rancher 2.3.3 I’m able to choose folder, but it always fails. Error with pre-create check: “folder ‘/DCAMS-AM4/vm/NL/DCAMS-AM4/vm/stage’ not found” It looks like rancher adds /vm/ in path. There is no such directory. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/3/3439694e30457e49a21f2131552be6df0ab21ce1.png) ---
**Author:** ![areed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e5b9ba/32.png) [@areed](https://forums.suse.com/u/areed)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997/7 "2019-12-31T22:09:22Z")
Having the same issue on 2.3.3. Choosing no folder will work but its a pain to move all the worker nodes if a node template is changed to a folder manually. ---
**Author:** ![luther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@luther](https://forums.suse.com/u/luther)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/vsphere-node-folder-never-found-when-creating-cluster/10997/8 "2020-01-06T19:22:48Z")
Hi Everyone, the folder targeting was a bug in 2.3.3 and this was fixed started 2.3.4 RC5 and even better now in RC8. If you can’t use an RC in your environment just know when 2.3.4 is officially out you should upgrade. Related Issues > > > What kind of request is this (question/bug/enhancement/feature request): > BUG > Steps to reproduce (least amount of steps as possible): > upgraded from Rancher 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 > old... > > > What kind of request is this (question/bug/enhancement/feature request): > bug > Steps to reproduce (least amount of steps as possible): > Create vSphere Node Template in e.g.... RC8 > **[rancher/rancher](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.3.4-rc8)** > > Complete container management platform. Contribute to rancher/rancher development by creating an account on GitHub.