Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed: Capacity of uploaded disk is larger than requested

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SITC

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Sep 19, 2017, 1:11:58 PM9/19/17
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I get the error in the subject when attempting to deploy.  It's not a space issue on the hypervisor, I've tried it on 3 different datastore ranging from 465GB to 2TB.  What I am seeing is that there is an issue with the OVF file and the size it has specified in it.  I've been getting this issue slightly different language when i was using vsphere 5., but have upgraded the host to 6.5.  For some reason it won't deploy.

Any reccomendations on correct size to change within the ovf, or am I missing something?

Thanks!

SITC

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Sep 19, 2017, 1:28:47 PM9/19/17
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So I may have resolved my own issue - and for those who are wondering later:  I used notepad to edit the .OVF file and changed the:  <Disk ovf:capacity="4" to <Disk ovf:capacity="702"

I may not understand this correctly, and if not someone can explain better than I in a reply, but I believe the "4" is setting the maximum capacity or size (not 100% sure which) of the VMDK file in Mb.  By setting it to a size in Mb slightly larger than the actual VMDK file size it seems to have deployed without any further issues.

Hope this helps someone in the future.

francois...@rcdevs.com

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Sep 20, 2017, 4:02:23 AM9/20/17
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Hi SITC

The capacity is ovf:capacity="4" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30"
which corresponds to 4 x 2^30 bytes or 4 Go

Perhaps your hypervisor misunderstand ovf:capacityAllocationUnits ?

francois...@rcdevs.com

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Sep 20, 2017, 7:55:43 AM9/20/17
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We've found the problem:

Our appliance on centos 6 works with 4Go, which is correct, but our appliance on centos 7 was configured also with 4Go and the HD uses 20Go

We've changed ovf:capacity to 20 and it works now.

Sean Pennington

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Sep 20, 2017, 8:21:09 AM9/20/17
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I will redeploy, with that number.  Since getting it to deploy  it isn't taking the static IP, hopefully this is related.
Thanks for the pointer.

Best regards.

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Sep 21, 2017, 11:07:27 AM9/21/17
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Hi,

hooking to the point: it isn't taking the static IP:

We recently tried to install the CentOS 7 based VM an ran into another problem: it doesn't take the IP via DHCP and while running through the install script, we couldn't see the typical interaction flow that was usually offered with the CentOS 6 VM.

I will try to send the error report tomorrow, since I have to leave for a meeting now.

Maybe we better open another problem report. I just wanted to find a hook, after I read the comment below.

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I ended up reverting to CentOS6 install, which now has me to the webadm ui.  I haven’t taken things any further at this point.  It seems the centos7 appliance setup is hosed in some way.  Not sure how, but I can say that I did look at the network file and it was blank.  No static IP settings listed.

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