diff --git a/ui/public/locales/en.json b/ui/public/locales/en.json
index 89abfe5981f..a913435dfc7 100644
--- a/ui/public/locales/en.json
+++ b/ui/public/locales/en.json
@@ -3029,7 +3029,8 @@
 "message.network.offering.promiscuous.mode": "Applicable for guest Networks on VMware hypervisor only.\nReject - The switch drops any outbound frame from a virtual machine adapter with a source MAC address that is different from the one in the .vmx configuration file.\nAccept - The switch does not perform filtering, and permits all outbound frames.\nNone - Default to value from global setting.",
 "message.network.removenic": "Please confirm that want to remove this NIC, which will also remove the associated Network from the Instance.",
 "message.network.secondaryip": "Please confirm that you would like to acquire a new secondary IP for this NIC. \n NOTE: You need to manually configure the newly-acquired secondary IP inside the virtual machine.",
-"message.network.selection": "Choose one or more Networks to attach the Instance to. A new Network can also be created here.",
+"message.network.selection": "Choose one or more Networks to attach the Instance to.",
+"message.network.selection.new.network": "A new Network can also be created here.",
 "message.network.updateip": "Please confirm that you would like to change the IP address for this NIC on the Instance.",
 "message.network.usage.info.data.points": "Each data point represents the difference in data traffic since the last data point.",
 "message.network.usage.info.sum.of.vnics": "The Network usage shown is made up of the sum of data traffic from all the vNICs in the Instance.",
diff --git a/ui/src/views/compute/DeployVM.vue b/ui/src/views/compute/DeployVM.vue
index ef4118959ea..95919461644 100644
--- a/ui/src/views/compute/DeployVM.vue
+++ b/ui/src/views/compute/DeployVM.vue
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
                 <template #description>
                   <div v-if="zoneSelected" style="margin-top: 5px">
                     <div style="margin-bottom: 10px">
-                      {{ $t('message.network.selection') }}
+                      {{ $t('message.network.selection') + ('createNetwork' in $store.getters.apis ? ' ' + $t('message.network.selection.new.network') : '') }}
                     </div>
                     <div v-if="vm.templateid && templateNics && templateNics.length > 0">
                       <instance-nics-network-select-list-view
diff --git a/ui/src/views/compute/wizard/NetworkSelection.vue b/ui/src/views/compute/wizard/NetworkSelection.vue
index 4856d257c42..f2dabc0012a 100644
--- a/ui/src/views/compute/wizard/NetworkSelection.vue
+++ b/ui/src/views/compute/wizard/NetworkSelection.vue
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ export default {
       api('listZones', { id: this.zoneId }).then(json => {
         const zoneResponse = json.listzonesresponse.zone || []
         this.showCreateButton = false
-        if (zoneResponse && zoneResponse.length > 0 && (!zoneResponse[0].securitygroupsenabled || (isAdmin() && zoneResponse[0].networktype === 'Advanced'))) {
+        if ('createNetwork' in store.getters.apis && zoneResponse && zoneResponse.length > 0 && (!zoneResponse[0].securitygroupsenabled || (isAdmin() && zoneResponse[0].networktype === 'Advanced'))) {
           this.showCreateButton = true
         }
       })