vCloud Director Error – Failed to publish configuration on vShield Edge

Tonight, tried to clone a new virtual machine using vCloud Director when I got the following error:

Failed to publish configuration on vShield Edge. Error code VIX_E_TIMEOUT_WAITING_FOR_TOOLS was returned by VIX API.

vCloudError-vShielddEdge

Solution:

Restarting the vShield server resolved the issue.