vShield installation error

[Iwan_Rahabok]

Hi,

I've got the vShield Manager installed and running.

But on the vShield agent, I got an error message when deploying the OVF. The error message is "Device VirtualVMXNet3 has a backing type that is not supported".

Is it because it is not yet compatible with ESXi? It deployed ok on ESX.

Regards

e1

[admin]

Are you using ESXi3 or ESXi4. It definitely works with ESXi4. If you are trying this on 3 it won't work. It shouldn't work on ESX3 either.

[Iwan_Rahabok]

Fixed it. It did not work because of distributed vSwitch. Once I removed them, the OVF can be deployed.

[carlosVSZ · Accepted solution]

vShield supports both legacy and vDS switches and only in 4.0. However, there is a known issue when deploying in an evironment that has no legacy vSwitches. The workaround is detailed in this KB article1012440:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1012440&sl...

The error message in the KB article is slightly different but the end result and workaround is the same.