When attempting to configure a job with a "Deploy VM from Template" build step, the user is prompted to enter "The name of the vSphere template to clone and start."

The documentation for the vSphere Cloud Plugin says, "This build step will create a VM from the specified template. The template must have at least one snapshot before it can be cloned." And the plugin's form validation requires that a snapshot exist.

However, there does not seem to be a way to create a snapshot of a template in vSphere 5.5, so this condition cannot be met.