Unable to manage snapshots for non-existing VM

[anishkrishna87]

SUMMARY

I prepared a playbook to take snapshot of vmware vm's using community.vmware module and I'm getting "Unable to manage snapshots for non-existing VM" error for some of the vm's.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

community.vmware

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible [core 2.16.6]
python version = 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0] (/usr/bin/python3)
jinja version = 3.0.3

COLLECTION VERSION

Collection       Version
---------------- -------
community.vmware 4.3.0  

CONFIGURATION

CONFIG_FILE() = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
HOST_KEY_CHECKING(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False

OS / ENVIRONMENT

VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 23307199

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Run the below ansible playbook aget getting below error.
fatal: [hostname -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to manage snapshots for non-existing VM hostname"}

- name: Create Snapshot
      vmware_guest_snapshot:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: 
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
        validate_certs: no
        name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
        state: present
        snapshot_name: "Test"
        folder: Test
        description: " Test"
      delegate_to: localhost

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS