DEPLOYING OVF/OVA USING VSPHERE WEB-CLIENT FAILS

vcenter web client ova/ovf deployment error

vcenter web client ova/ovf deployment error

vQuicky

> Found out that deploying and ovf/ova file using vsphere web client fails

> Deployment errors out while selecting storage – “No Datastores Found on Target” and/or “cURL error: Couldn’t connect to server”

> File can be deployed using vsphere windows client.

> VMware aware of the issue and the only work around is to use the windows client.

inDepth

When deploying an ovf/ova file using the vsphere web client – the process fails while selecting the datastore. You see a “no datastores found on target” error. This is a bug so don’t panic 🙂

The work around is to use the vsphere standalone client to upload the ova/ovf files.

If you want to check out the kb article that talks about the datastore error but not about the cURL error – click here.

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