[JENKINS-44796] Robustness improvements #85
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vSphere has a failure mode whereby the clone-and-power-on operation can successfully clone but then fail to power-on.
This can then result in us having a VM in vSphere that we think we failed to create, so we would later "collide" with it.
This can also result in us having a VM in vSphere without the meta-data (stored in the extra-config) that we rely upon to recognize our own VMs, causing us to fail to recognize it as "one of ours" when we do later "collide" with it, meaning that the code introduced in #73 fails to trigger.
The solution is to ensure that the VM is created with the meta-data from the outset, and to always try to delete any VM that didn't create properly (even if vSphere tells us it didn't get created).