Why did VM deployment fail with 'VM with name not found using the specified filter(s)'?

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

Describe the bug

Reproduction steps

1.New-HoloDeckInstance
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Expected behavior

VMs deployment goes through

Additional context

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[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

This issue can occur if the portgroup used by vCenter for VM placement is an uplink portgroup.
Uplink portgroups are static and do not have available ports for VM deployment, which causes Holodeck to fail during the VM provisioning step.

Symptoms:
- Error: VM with name 'green-esx-01a' was not found using the specified filter(s)
- Deployment halts with: [ERROR] Deployment failed

When does this happen?
- Environments with multiple vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS) configured in the same vCenter.
- The VM placement logic accidentally targets an uplink portgroup.

Workaround:
- Create a test portgroup in the same vDS with default settings (non-uplink, ephemeral or static binding).
- Retry the Holodeck deployment process.