vsan witness ova install failing

[beezleinc]

trying to install

VMware-VirtualSAN-Witness-6.7.0-8169922.ova

on a 'free' esxi  6.7.0 Update 1 (Build 11675023)

and getting "Line 644: Duplicate Element 'InstanceID' on the last step

Any ideas?

[TheBobkin]

Hello beezleinc​,

Can you please test this with the latest available Witness OVA?:

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=WITNESS-OVA-67U1&productId=742

Bob

[beezleinc]

Hi.  Tried the U1 version.  Same error.  Looks like it is just when the Tiny config is selected.  I switched to Normal config size and it completed.

Thank u

[lodoss900]

thanks! deploying the witness tiny latest version gave me this error Followed your advice medium and worked no issues

[KocPawel]

You can try do this:

1. Extract content of the OVA file using VMware OVF tool

https://www.unixarena.com/2014/03/vmware-ovf-tool-convert-ova-ovf.html/

2. Create a copy of OVF file in case something goes wrong and open OVF (you can even use default text editor).

Go to line 644 and check what is there.

If you change something in ovf file, you need to do that:

a) Create new SHA1 checksum for updated OVF file.

openssl sha1 <name>.ovf

b) Update the OVF file checksum in manifest file.