Greetings!

I'm currently trying to sign created OVA package with trusted certificate from Thawte.

This cert is valid (till 2013) and could be easily verified with openssl (`openssl verify sign.cert`) or with Windows tools.

Signing works as follows and it is okay:

ovftool --sourceType=vmx --targetType=ova --privateKey=sign.pem package.vmx package.ova

But when I try to check it with ovftool (`ovftool package.ova`) it shows:

Error: Verification of package.cert failed

Also verification of package.cert itself with openssl is also fine.

Can anybody help me on what could cause such problem?

Thanks in advance.

This is driving me crazy! How do you specify which datastore to use when there are multiple?

I ran exactly the same command on a box that had one datastore and it worked fine (as expected). It created the VM folder in the root of the DS and then pulled across the VM from the OVF. However with multiple it just says no target datstore specified. I've tried a million combinations of ?-ds= with square brackets, without. Sometimes it says not found in inventory. I guess it's looking for a folder. But surely this can't be that hard?

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool P:\Downloads\PanoManagerVM-2.8.0

-ovf\panomanager.ovf "vi://root@192.168.1.5

Opening OVF source: P:\Downloads\PanoManagerVM-2.8.0-ovf\panomanager.ovf

Warning: No manifest file

Please enter login information for target vi://192.168.1.5/

Username: root

Password: *********

Opening VI target: vi://root@192.168.1.5/

Error: No target datastore specified

Datastores found on target:

  SAN Storage

  storage1

Hello.

I'm trying to create an ovf  file from esx 3.5 for later imports into esx 3.5/4.0. For the export I'm using ovftool 1.0 for linux. exporting using the same linux tool works. but when trying  to export using the windows ovftool, it crashes immediately with this message:

U:\>"c:\Program Files\OVFTool\ovftool.exe" --datastore=ds5 z:\myimage.ovf vi://***:***@//10.1.5.161/

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.

Please contact the application's support team for more information.

does it have to do with my specific ovf? is there something I can try to get around this problem? is any other information needed?

Thanks, Nir

I downloaded the latest OVF converter tool but it looks like as per documentation, it cannot convert OVA to VMX?

If yes, how?  If no, how do I?  Thanks

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool  E:\vmdk2008\Windows2008\Windows
2008P2V.vmx   vcloud://suresh:suresh1@10.137.90.73:443?org=Org1-Cloud1&vapp=myVA
PPTets&catalog=cat2&vappTemplate=junk&vdc=OrgVDC-org1-Cloud1
Opening VMX source: E:\vmdk2008\Windows2008\Windows2008P2V.vmx
Error: Missing vappTemplate or vapp key in locator
Completed with errors
'vapp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'catalog' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'vappTemplate' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'vdc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>

I have a .iso image from which I want to create a .ova , But everytime I run into a problem

Error: Curl error: Couldn't connect to server

Completed with errors

Here is the command I used,

ovftool vi://user:master/@14.23.12.34:443/rt4/www/html/imgs/qweTER7.3/.tyRani/NEWCFT/CFT-NEW-5.23.23.iso /rt4/www/html/tmp_ova/CFT-NEW-5.23.23.ova

Not sure whats wrong with this command, I don't have special character in my password or username

please note that 14.23.12.34 is a linux machine and both source and target are in same machine and Im executing ovftool command in same linux machine.

Thank you

Mac

From virtualmachine i have exported .ovf file from the following website http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/how-do-i-convert-virtualbox-files-to-work-with-vmware-workstation/#.

and i recieved the following error in cmd prompt.

can anyone please help me to understand error line 84 and prove me solution .

........................................................................................

Error:

- Line 84: Could not parse the document: 'mismatched tag'

Warning:

- No manifest file found.

Completed with errors.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Steps followed:

Step 1: Export your virtual machine

The first step is to export your virtual machine from VirtualBox.

Step 2: Editing your .ovf file

The file you need to edit will be the .ovf file that serves as the descriptor for your virtual machine. You MUST open this in a text editor. Do NOT open it in a word processor as this will add extra characters to the file, which will render it unreadable by either VirtualBox or VMWare. The first section you need to edit is the format section. Look for a line of code (near the top) that contains this phrase:

ovf:format=

What follows that section needs to be changed to:

"http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized"

The next edit (in the same file) is the Virtual SystemType, and it must be one of the following:

<vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-07</vssd:VirtualSystemType> (for a esx 4.0)

<vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-04</vssd:VirtualSystemType> (for esx 3.5.x and 4.0 hosts)

Believe it or not, the next item to edit is the rsad for the sound card. The section will look similar to:

<Item>

<rasd:Caption>sound</rasd:Caption>

<rasd:Description>Sound Card</rasd:Description>

<rasd:InstanceId>6</rasd:InstanceId>

<rasd:ResourceType>35</rasd:ResourceType>

<rasd:ResourceSubType>ensoniq1371</rasd:ResourceSubType>

<rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>

<rasd:AddressOnParent>3</rasd:AddressOnParent>

</Item>

To the above section, add the following after the first <Item> tag:

<Item ovf:required="false">

Step 3: Using the OVF tool

This step requires you to download and install the VMWare OVF Tool (you will have to log in first). The OVF tool is command-line only, and it will convert your newly prepped .ovf file into a .vmx that VMWare can use. To do this, follow these steps:

• Click Start | Run.
• Type cmd.
• In the command window, change to the directory you installed the OVF Tool into and then issue the command:ovftool appliance.ovf new_appliance.vmx(Where appliance.ovf is the name of the appliance you exported from VirtualBox and new_appliance.vmx is the name you want to give the new virtual appliance. Depending on the size of your virtual appliance, this could take a while.)

So long story short I'm building a self deployment install using a Kickstart script that after the install uses wget to copyy the OVA files to the local data store and then deploys the OVAs, i have the script figured out however i can't seem to get ovftool installed on ESXi 5.5, everytime i try to run it i get the following error

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

this happens even after making the file executable, here's the whole command

~ # cd /tmp

/tmp # mkdir ovf

/tmp # cd ovf/

/tmp/ovf # wget http://10.10.10.4/OVA/VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

Connecting to 10.10.10.4 (10.10.10.4:80)

VMware-ovftool-3.5.0 100% |*******************************| 40125k  0:00:00 ETA

/tmp/ovf # chmod +x VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

/tmp/ovf # ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

/tmp/ovf # sh ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

/tmp/ovf # /bin/sh ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

I converted a Virtual Machine installed on a ESX 3.5 server to a virtual

appliance (*.ovf ) file using the OVFTOOL1.0.Now I am trying to

convert this virtual appliance to deploy as a virtual machine on a

different ESX server using same converter 4.0.1 and it is not working.

I get following error

Error: Failed to clone disk C:\Documents and

Settings\*\Desktop\*\viso.vmdk on the virtual machine 'viso'.

If I try

importing the same virtual appliance viso.ovf file with VMware Infrastructure client 2.5 I get

the following error "An

error occured while parsing the OVF descriptor: Unable to parse xml element 'Envelop'"

Please suggest what might be wrong. I am stuck and need help. I will need to make the VM from OVF file with Any UI Deployer

Thanks,

Lachi

Hi I'm wondering if there is an automation tool/command(s) that will allow us (team of developers) to import/use a .iso file that contains 64bit OS and pass it through VMware ESXi or Server and then export it to OVF/OVA?

Is it possible? Can it be done?

Your answers will be very apreciated, many thanks!

Is there a way to map network devices that are both associated with "VM Network" in the ova to different networks on the target?  The ova contains only "VM Network", but I would like to put one interface on "NET_A" and one on "NET_B".

I didn't find this documented anywhere else, so I wanted to note that, if you want to use windows domain accounts in the authentication process for ovftool without specifying it interactively, you must specify the \ character using %5c, as in:

ovftool --acceptAllEulas --net:nat=mgmt-net --datastore=nfs-1 --name=Ubuntu-test Ubuntu.vmwarevm/Ubuntu.vmx vi://WINDOMAIN%5cAdministrator:password@10.10.10.100/dcName/host/cluster-name

When I try to export one of my VMs using File/Export/Export OVF Template....it crashes vSphere with a nice assertion window.

To see what the cause of this is, I decided to try using ovftool 2.1.0 on Linux to export the VM instead, to see what happens (like does it crash ovftool?).

I got stuck though because when I log into the vCenter I have to specify a domain\username format and I can't figure out how to pass this to ovftool in a way that doesn't cause errors.

For example, I tried things like this:

# ovftool  vi://myvcenter.domain.com/DataCenterName/vm/

Username:  MYDOMAIN\Administrator

Password: whatever

Didn't work, I don't think it likes the backslash.

So I tried stuffing it in a variable:

# DF="MYDOMAIN\Administrator"

# ovftool  vi://"$DF"@myvcenter.domain.com/DataCenterName/vm/

Error: Curl error: Couldn't connect to server

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

CJ

Hi All,

I have just come across ovftool and was giving a try to it. I am fairly new to VMware world.

I have a  .OVF which I exported using vSphere client 4.0. This .OVF comprises of 3 Suse Linux based virtual machines. i.e. I created a vApp on ESX (4.1) host, in this vApp I put my 3 SLES VMs and then exported it as OVF.

It has a total size of around 4.5GB.

Now I ran this command to compress this .OVF as well as gave an option to create deltadisks.

C:\> ovftool --compress=9 --makeDeltaDisks --skipManifestCheck  MyVMCluster\MyVMCluster.ovf   E:\

output:

{{{

The manifest does not validate
Generating delta disks for 2 disks (capacity 40960 MB)
Reading disks
Disk Transfer Completed

Determining optimal configuration for capacity group
Writing configuration to disk
Disk Transfer Completed

Completed successfully

}}}

Now when I checked my E:\ It had created a folder with the same name and put related files there. I saw a significant reduction in the new vmdk size. ( around 2.3GB now )

Now when I manually deploy this new ovf on vSphere client, it goes till certain %age and then flags an error:

{{{

Error uploading file to server ( E:\MyVMCluster\disk3.vmdk.gz ) Not a supported disk format ( Invalid sparse vmdk header )

}}}

and then it stops and everything rolledback.

Any pointers ?

Thanks

Nikunj

Hello

I've looked around in the forums, but couldn't find a resolution to this problem. I'm using ovftool (the latest version - 2.1.0) to deploy an ova consisting of 3 VMs to an ESXi 4.1 server, via a vcenter. I see frequent stalls in the data transfer from the vcenter to the server (did a packet capture), and ovftool frequently (but not always) gives up at some random point through the transfer, complaining that it encountered an unexpected end of stream.

Here's the commandline I'm using:

ovftool --name=foo --X:logToConsole=True --X:logLevel="verbose" --diskMode=thin --net:"VM Network"="VM Network" --vmFolder=bar --skipManifestCheck myova.ova vi://user:pass@localhost/my_dc/host/my_host/Resources/my_pool

Here's a log snippet if it might help:

2012-09-11T07:13:01.767-07:00 [07668 verbose 'Default'] [ViConnection] Using vim API version: 5.0
2012-09-11T07:13:01.891-07:00 [07384 warning 'Libs'] Encountered other certificate error: 27
2012-09-11T07:13:01.891-07:00 [07384 warning 'Libs'] Encountered other certificate error: 27
2012-09-11T07:13:01.938-07:00 [07668 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool'] HttpConnectionPoolImpl created. maxPoolConnections = 1; idleTimeout = 900000000; maxOpenConnections = 1; maxConnectionAge = 0
2012-09-11T07:13:01.954-07:00 [07668 verbose 'Default'] Keeping VI session alive
Opening VI target: vi://user:pass@localhost:443/my_dc/host/my_host/Resources/my_pool
2012-09-11T07:13:02.016-07:00 [07384 warning 'Libs'] Encountered other certificate error: 27
2012-09-11T07:13:02.016-07:00 [07384 warning 'Libs'] Encountered other certificate error: 27
Deploying to VI: vi://user:pass@localhost:443/my_dc/host/my_host/Resources/my_pool
2012-09-11T07:13:10.471-07:00 [07668 verbose 'Default'] Using file size as progress measure
Disk progress: 02012-09-11T07:13:10.518-07:00 [07668 verbose 'Default'] Opening disk target /nut4/client/VirtualLsiLogicController0:0
2012-09-11T07:13:10.534-07:00 [07384 verbose 'Default'] CURL: => Send header POST /nfc/52d3abc1-5c67-3e19-1db6-88303c597203/disk-0.vmdk HTTP/1.1
--> User-Agent: VMware-client/4.0.0 (ovfTool; libcurl)
--> Host: 1.1.1.2
--> Accept: */*
--> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
--> Content-Type: application/x-vnd.vmware-streamVmdk
-->
-->
2012-09-11T07:13:35.010-07:00 [07384 verbose 'Default'] Curl_perform error code 55 (Failed sending data to the peer)
Disk Transfer Failed                      
Error: Internal error: Unexpected end of stream

Interestingly, if I use the vsphere client to deploy the ova, it goes through quicker and I haven't seen it fail (I need to use ovftool to automate deployment).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hi all,

I am trying to implement an OVF support for some virtualization software, which is using raw images for disks. I use qemu-img to convert raw images to vmdk format. Then I use ovftool to convert ovf file into vmware instance.

When the file I have is a simple ovf descriptor + manifest + disk - all is fine, it works even if I'm using qemu-img without "compat6" option

When the disk is compressed or the OVF package is packed into OVA - there are errors being thrown. Moreover when I create OVA package with no disk, the conversion works.

Here is the fragment of results for the OVA file:

Writing VMX file: test_ova.vmx
[2011-10-03 16:34:35.685 7F097D2C1720 verbose 'ovftool'] Using file size as progress measure
Disk progress: 0%[2011-10-03 16:34:35.685 7F097D2C1720 verbose 'ovftool'] Ovf::GetFileSource as StreamVmdk failed. Exception: Cannot open disk source: Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old)
Disk Transfer Failed                       
Error: Failed to open source disk: 3f66f54d-a9fa-4aa8-806d-d757d6f34a59.disk0.vmdk
[2011-10-03 16:34:35.685 7F097D2C1720 verbose 'ovftool'] Backtrace: 
[00] rip 00007f09767453e4  
[01] rip 00007f09765e99d4  
[02] rip 00007f097658e038  
[03] rip 00000000004fef51  
[04] rip 000000000054aaa5  
[05] rip 000000000054ae78  
[06] rip 000000000049c41a  
[07] rip 00007f0974e62c4d  
[08] rip 000000000047ec7a  
[2011-10-03 16:34:35.685 7F097D2C1720 verbose 'ovftool'] Deleting file: ./test_ova-disk1.vmdk

Same fragment when I unpack OVA and then run ovftool on the .ovf file:

Writing VMX file: test_ovf.vmx
[2011-10-03 16:35:53.934 7F7E899C4720 verbose 'ovftool'] Using file size as progress measure
Disk progress: 0%[2011-10-03 16:35:53.935 7F7E899C4720 verbose 'ovftool'] Ovf::GetFileSource as StreamVmdk failed. Exception: Cannot open disk source: Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old)
Disk progress: 99%[2011-10-03 16:35:54.106 7F7E899C4720 verbose 'ovftool'] Ovf::GetFileSource: Opened 3f66f54d-a9fa-4aa8-806d-d757d6f34a59.disk0.vmdk as diskLib source
[2011-10-03 16:35:54.106 7F7E899C4720 verbose 'ovftool'] Opening disk target /xcinstall-1.corp.google.com/VirtualLsiLogicController0:0
Disk Transfer Completed                    
Completed successfully

Thank you.

I'm trying to use the ovftool to import a OVA file into a ESXi server.  However I get the following error

Error: OVF Package is not supported by target:
- Line 118: Unsupported element 'Property'
Completed with errors

The related lines in the OVF file are:

    <ProductSection ovf:class="vami" ovf:instance="*******">
      <Info>Information about the installed software</Info>
      <Category>Networking Properties</Category>
118-->      <Property ovf:key="gateway" ovf:type="string" ovf:userConfigurable="true">
        <Label>Default Gateway</Label>
        <Description>The default gateway address for this VM. Leave blank if DHCP is desired.</Description>
      </Property>
      <Property ovf:key="DNS" ovf:type="string" ovf:userConfigurable="true">

Based on some initial investigation I have done I beleive this is because the ProductSection is defaulting to required="true" which forces ESXi to use these fields, however ESXi doesn't seem to support this and it errors out as shown above.

The OVA file was generated using ovftoolto export VM in a vcenter instance.  This OVA file imports fine into vcenter, but not ESXi

Is there anyway to configure ovftoolwhen run against vcenter to generate required="false" in the  ProductSection elements?

    <ProductSection ovf:class="vami" ovf:instance="*******" ovf:required="false">
   
Or some otherway to get ovftoolto export a VM from vcenter as an OVA that will import into ESXi?

ovftool 2.1, ESXi 4.1, vCenter 4.1

So long story short I'm building a self deployment install using a Kickstart script that after the install uses wget to copyy the OVA files to the local data store and then deploys the OVAs, i have the script figured out however i can't seem to get ovftool installed on ESXi 5.5, everytime i try to run it i get the following error

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

this happens even after making the file executable, here's the whole command

~ # cd /tmp

/tmp # mkdir ovf

/tmp # cd ovf/

/tmp/ovf # wget http://10.10.10.4/OVA/VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

Connecting to 10.10.10.4 (10.10.10.4:80)

VMware-ovftool-3.5.0 100% |*******************************| 40125k  0:00:00 ETA

/tmp/ovf # chmod +x VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

/tmp/ovf # ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

/tmp/ovf # sh ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

/tmp/ovf # /bin/sh ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

I try to deploy a OVA into a vCenter 5.5, using OVFTool with the following command:

/usr/bin/ovftool --powerOn --acceptAllEulas --noSSLVerify --skipManifestCheck --allowAllExtraConfig --X:enableHiddenProperties --deploymentOption=${VMNAME_DEPLOYMENT_SIZE} "--net:Network 1=${VMNAME_PORTGROUP}" --datastore=${VMNAME_DATASTORE} --diskMode=${VMNAME_DISK_TYPE} --name=${VMNAME_DISPLAY_NAME} --prop:vami.DNS.APPLIANCE=${VMNAME_DNS} --prop:vami.gateway.APPLIANCE=${VMNAME_GATEWAY} --prop:vami.ip0.APPLIANCE=${VMNAME_IPADDRESS} --prop:vami.netmask0.APPLIANCE=${VMNAME_NETMASK} --prop:guestinfo.cis.appliance.ssh.enabled=${ENABLE_SSH} ${VMNAME_OVA} vi:/${VCENTER_USERNAME}:${VCENTER_PASSWORD}@${VCENTER_HOSTNAME}/?dns=${ESXI_HOSTNAME}

and I got this error:

Opening VMX target: vi:/administrator*************
Error: OVF Package is not supported by target:
 - Line 768: Unsupported virtual hardware device 'VirtualSCSI'.
Warning:
 - ExtraConfig options exists in source.
Completed with errors

The OVF file has the following settings:

            <Item>
     LINE768-->   <rasd:Address xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData">0</rasd:Address>
                <rasd:ElementName xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData">SCSI Controller 0 - pvscsi</rasd:ElementName>
                <rasd:InstanceID xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData">4</rasd:InstanceID>
                <rasd:ResourceSubType>virtualSCSI</rasd:ResourceSubType>
            <rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
              </Item>

and also :

<System>
        <vssd:ElementName>Virtual Hardware Family</vssd:ElementName>
        <vssd:InstanceID>0</vssd:InstanceID>
<vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-07 vmx-08 vmx-09</vssd:VirtualSystemType>
      </System>

Any advice on how to fix this issue and deploy the OVA?

Thanks.

I'm trying to export a VM using ovftool on linux.

 ovftool --X:logFile=upload1.log --X:logLevel=verbose --noSSLVerify vi://[user]:[pass]@[ESXi IP]:[port]/my_datacenter/vm/my_vm_folder/my_vm_name /tmp/test.OVF 

and i get the following error in the log:

2016-11-11T11:40:30.287+02:00 verbose -[7F5C76E3F7C0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Getting version of the VI host : [ESXi IP]

2016-11-11T11:40:30.287+02:00 verbose -[7F5C76E3F7C0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing new curl session

2016-11-11T11:40:30.288+02:00 verbose -[7F5C76E3F7C0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] WebRequest set basic http authorization, username : [user]

2016-11-11T11:40:30.288+02:00 verbose -[7F5C76E3F7C0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Getting http page: https://[ESXi IP]/sdk/vimServiceVersions.xml

2016-11-11T11:40:30.299+02:00 verbose -[7F5C6F1CF700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Curl_perform error code 35 (SSL connect error)

2016-11-11T11:40:30.299+02:00 verbose -[7F5C76E3F7C0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] CURL error buffer: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number

2016-11-11T11:40:30.299+02:00 verbose -[7F5C76E3F7C0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Curl session torn down

2016-11-11T11:40:30.300+02:00 verbose -[7F5C76E3F7C0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Backtrace:

-->

--> [backtrace begin] product: VMware Workstation, version: e.x.p, build: build-2459827, tag: -

--> backtrace[00] libvmacore.so[0x003D9C74]: Vmacore::System::Stacktrace::CaptureWork(unsigned int)

--> backtrace[01] libvmacore.so[0x001DBF37]: Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateQuickBacktrace(Vmacore::Ref<Vmacore::System::Backtrace>&)

--> backtrace[02] libvmacore.so[0x0018481D]: Vmacore::Throwable::Throwable(std::string const&)

--> backtrace[03] ovftool.bin[0x0020DFB3]

--> backtrace[04] ovftool.bin[0x00248E5D]

--> backtrace[05] ovftool.bin[0x0024C5C9]

--> backtrace[06] ovftool.bin[0x00295BC4]

--> backtrace[07] ovftool.bin[0x0029714C]

--> backtrace[08] ovftool.bin[0x00299744]

--> backtrace[09] ovftool.bin[0x001EC2B4]

--> backtrace[10] ovftool.bin[0x001EEB04]

--> backtrace[11] libc.so.6[0x00021F45]

--> backtrace[12] ovftool.bin[0x001626B9]

--> [backtrace end]

-->

You'll note that the command is run with --noSSLVerify.

So I checked the SSL versions on both the client and the ESX server using:

openssl ciphers -v | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq 

and both returned:

SSLv3

TLSv1.2

no difference between the two...
looked around for this curl error and while it is fairly well known I haven't seen a solution applicable to my situation.

Any ideas?