Hello, I'm having some trouble getting both the vSphere Client and ovftool to
import my OVF's. When using the vSphere Client, I successfully walk through
the wizard to "Deploy OVF Template", I click Finish on the final wizard screen
and progress dialog pops up. It counts up to 100% complete while showing
"Deploying disk 1 of 1..." and then always fails with the following error
displayed on a popup window:
"Failed to deploy OVF package: The remote server returned an error: (500)
Internal Server Error"
I then tried using ovftool, to convert my OVF to VMX format. Similarly, the
"Disk Progress" percentage counts up to 100% and then errors with:
Opening OVF source: stout-1-x86_64.ovf
Warning: No manifest file
Opening VMX target: stout-out/
Target: stout-out/stout-1-x86_64/stout-1-x86_64.vmx
Disk Transfer Failed
Error: Failed to open source disk: stout-1-x86_64.vmdk
In both cases, it seems the problem is with my disk file, which is a
stream optimized VMDK. Just to check, I verified that I was able to import
this exact same disk file built into an OVF 0.9 using Virtual Infrastructure
Client 2.5.0. So, I'm at a loss as to what the problem may be. Do you have
to build the stream optimized vmdk any differently? Any other suggestions on
how I may be able to debug this further?
Thanks for any help,
James Slagle