terraform-provider-vsphere: [ESXi] Creating virtual machine fails (PolicyIDByVirtualMachine)

I tried to create a virtual machine on an ESXi server (no vCenter) and received the following error message:

Error: this operation is only supported on vCenter: RESOURCE (52), ACTION (PolicyIDByVirtualMachine)

  on test.tf line 46, in resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm":
  46: resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {

I think the problem is in the following line; https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-vsphere/blob/1c52bb0d1124d759df766edf47e4fe1442fc9a96/vsphere/resource_vsphere_virtual_machine.go#L453

Reading a storage policy id will always fail without vCenter since it is not supported.

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Terraform Version / vSphere Provider Version

Terraform v0.12.24
+ provider.vsphere v1.17.1

Affected Resource(s)

• vsphere_virtual_machine

Terraform Configuration Files

...
resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {
  name             = "terraform-test"
  resource_pool_id = data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id
  datastore_id     = data.vsphere_datastore.datastore.id

  num_cpus                   = 2
  memory                     = 1024
  guest_id                   = "ubuntu64Guest"
  wait_for_guest_net_timeout = 0
  firmware                   = "efi"


  network_interface {
    network_id = data.vsphere_network.network.id
  }

  disk {
    label            = "disk0"
    size             = 20
    thin_provisioned = false
  }
}

Debug Output (extract)

2020/04/11 10:46:43 [DEBUG] vsphere_virtual_machine.vm: apply errored, but we're indicating that via the Error pointer rather than returning it: this operation is only supported on vCenter: RESOURCE (52), ACTION (PolicyIDByVirtualMachine)

Expected Behavior

terraform apply performs the action successfully

Actual Behavior

terraform apply fails

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

• using ESXi without vCenter