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Latest OVA deployment fails on VMWARE ESXi / VCenter 7.x

Latest OVA deployment fails on VMWARE ESXi / VCenter 7.x

by Robert Mahar -
Number of replies: 1

( For me, at least? )   Importing the OVA or the detarred files produces:

I've tried to work backwards to what it thinks is device 9, but its unobvious which device in the .ovf file its complaining about.    I manage our vmware cluster here and import a lot of appliances... this is a new one for me.   I also tried the prior release OVA.   Same error.

Thanks!

-- Bob

In reply to Robert Mahar

Re: Latest OVA deployment fails on VMWARE ESXi / VCenter 7.x

by Arnold Pizer -
Hi,

Your error msg didn't come through.

Note the OVA was built on VMware Workstation 17 Pro using default settings (except the maxVirtualHardwareVersion was set to 13 so it will run on older versions of VMware). Googling "OVA built on Workstation Pro fails on VMWARE ESXi / VCenter 7.x" talks about a bunch of things including incompatibilities e.g. "When you created the vms did you set the compatibility to esxi or leave the default workstation pro selection. There are incompatibilities depending on the vm options selected." Not sure how valid this is, but as stated above, the OVA was built using the default settings.