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Hi All,

 

I am using prism central to import an OVA.  The OVA can be used to deploy VMs to EXSi server.

When I imported that OVA, the disk import failed with the following message:


Incorrect file uploaded. Disk conversion for OVA failed with err: Size of file scsi0.0 in OVA does not match size specified in OVF

 

I check the OVF (inside the OVA), it specified the disk size as:

Disk ovf:capacity="40" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30"

 

I sshed to the ESXi server and look at the flat disk size:
 

-rw-------    1 root     root       40.0G Feb 11 13:40 gw-3-0-20250120-flat.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root     root     42949672960 Feb 11 13:39 gw-3-0-20250120-flat.vmdk

 

They all looked correct.

Are there more detail logs wrt the import, that i can see why import failed?  like for example, what the import think the vmdk size should be?

 

Thanks,

 

SuperJames

Rename the .ova file to .zip

Extra the zip file

Upload the vmdk file as disk image

Create a virtual machine from that vmdk file. 

Rename the .ova file to .zip

Extra the zip file

Upload the vmdk file as disk image

Create a virtual machine from that vmdk file. 

 

Thanks,  i untar the ova, and was able to import vmdk.  That was the backup method for creating the image. 

 

Since prism supports importing ova now, i thought that should make it easier to import image directly from ova without going through steps of untaring and importing the disk.

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