I'm having some trouble getting the vSphere Client to import my OVF's. When using the vSphere Client, I successfully walk through the wizard to "Deploy OVF Template" then get the following error:

"Failed to deploy OVF package: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error"

Sometimes the error is a timeout error but this is very infrequent (I failed to capture the output).

In the Event log I see this error roughly 2 minutes after the import:

Deploy OVF template
MyVA
The task was
canceled by
a user.
ESXUSR
virtcent-dev.my.com
10/20/2009 12:13:09 PM
10/20/2009 12:13:09 PM
10/20/2009 12:15:37 PM

I can convert my OVF back to VMX format.

VMware ovftool 1.0.0 (build-166674). The command I'm executing is simply: ovftool "xxxx.vmx" "yyy.ovf"

It looks like a possible timeout issue on the cliet side, but I've reset the timeout (Edit->Client Settings->Client-Server command timeout = 600). This didn't seem to have any impact on the problem.

Thanks for any help.