Unable to import OVF

[yeidelman]

Hi,

I have downloaded software images from cisco website, when trying to import them
using VMware’s vSphere client from the extracted location I'm getting an error:

Error when importing OVF templage:

The OVF descriptor is too large

I have attached screenshot of the error.

Please advice.

[Abhilash Basavarajaiah]

Hi yeidelman,

Welcome to VMware Community.

Can you verify if the download hasn't been corrupted to start with?

[yeidelman]

Hi Abhilash,

The download has completed successfully ,I also tried several times from different machines.

[a_p_]

Please provide a list of files you downloaded. Please post the output of dir *.* /one from the command line.

André

[yeidelman]

The files are OVF files from cisco website, MD5 Checksum is correct.

[Abhilash Basavarajaiah]

The download should include all files. It should have a .ovf, .mf and also .vmdk files. Only then you will be able to  deploy it successfully.

[yeidelman]

Thanks for your response.

I thought mistakenly that the deploy can be done only with a single ovf file.

In the gz file was a file without an extension, I thought its ovf file and turns out it was tar file which contained the necessary files.

The deploy finished successfully.

Thanks again.

[a_p_]

With only a single file, it's most likely an .ova file. Next time just change the file extension to .ova to see whether this works.

André

[yeidelman]

I tried to rename it to ova, it didnt work.

The tar file contained the ovf & vmdk files.

[dkjones21]

This worked thanksa