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ova disk importing error

  • February 11, 2025
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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

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JeroenTielen
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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. 

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JeroenTielen wrote:

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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