OVA installation error

[Sekhar Vemula]

Hi All,

 

We are getting an error attached.

When we are trying to import the XenMobile 10.8 ova file into VCenter 6.5

 

Please let me know if anyone have resolved this issue

 

Below are the error message if its not clear

Value “VirtualSCSI” of element ResourceSubType not found in [lsilogic, lsilogicsas

OVF Deployment Error – :VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ‘‘3’’ of Parent element does not refer to a ref of type DiskControllerReference

 

 

Thanks in advance

 

Regards,

SV

[Mark Brilman]

Hi,

 

Sure. I have a vCenter with a distributed switch. So I had to trick the import a little. What I did:

 

• Log in directly to a ESX host (so not in vCenter but directly on the host)
• Create a bogus standard vSwitch and port group (it just has to be present, doesn't have to function)
• Import the XenMobile OVA to your ESX host and configure the bogus port group to it in the networking section.
• Make sure the VM doesn't start after succesful import
• Wait for the import to complete
• Log in to vCenter and configure the XenMobile VM with the correct portgroup in the Distributed Switch

Thats's it. If you don't use Distributed Switches in VMware you can ofcourse connect your standard port group during import.

 

have fun

 

[Mark Brilman]

Same issue on vCenter 6.7

[Mark Brilman]

Importing the OVA directly on vSphere works

[Sekhar Vemula]

On 9/21/2018 at 6:24 PM, Mark Brilman said:

Importing the OVA directly on vSphere works

Hi Mark,

 

Thankyou for the reply.

Would you please provide me the steps on how to import OVA directly on vSphere?

 

Thanks in advance

Regards,

SV

[Sekhar Vemula]

On 9/24/2018 at 5:36 PM, Mark Brilman said:

Hi,

 

Sure. I have a vCenter with a distributed switch. So I had to trick the import a little. What I did:

 

• Log in directly to a ESX host (so not in vCenter but directly on the host)
• Create a bogus standard vSwitch and port group (it just has to be present, doesn't have to function)
• Import the XenMobile OVA to your ESX host and configure the bogus port group to it in the networking section.
• Make sure the VM doesn't start after succesful import
• Wait for the import to complete
• Log in to vCenter and configure the XenMobile VM with the correct portgroup in the Distributed Switch

Thats's it. If you don't use Distributed Switches in VMware you can ofcourse connect your standard port group during import.

 

have fun

 

Thank you very much Mark for the steps :)

[Roberto Pereira]

We are now in March 2020 and Citrix still has no solution to this problem. Find that a little weak. Such an effort because of an import.

[Manuel Peraza]

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