I am currently trying to deploy a OVF template that points to a VMDK of createType=monolithicFlat. At the time of deployment I get an error ..
Failed to deploy OVF package: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error
There are other posts in this forum that point to incorrect sizes in the OVF file as one of the potential issues. But none of these seem to correspond to VMDKs of monolithicFlat type. I have listed below the References and DiskSection of my OVF file and VMDK file descriptor. I will appreciate it if someone can point out potential errors.
<References>
<File ovf:href="disk.vmdk" ovf:id="Disk" ovf:size="1073741824"/>
</References>
<DiskSection>
<Info>Virtual disk information</Info>
<Disk ovf:diskId="Disk" ovf:fileRef="Disk"
ovf:capacity="1073741824" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte"
ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" />
</DiskSection>
# cat disk.vmdk
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
encoding="UTF-8"
CID=67632d29
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="monolithicFlat"
# Extent description
RW 2097152 FLAT "disk-flat.vmdk" 0
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "2080"
ddb.geometry.heads = "16"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.adapterType = "ide"
Thanks
