OVF Deployment fails: Unable to view/configure networking properties on vCenter Server 8.0.U1

[AMUL01]

We are unable to view/configure some of the networking properties(IP address and Gateway) when deploying OVF/OVA on vCenter Server 8.0.U1 resulting in failed VM deployments.

We investigated this issue and found that the VMware property qualifiers vmw:qualifiers="IP" in the ovf template was causing this issue. When we removed the vmw:qualifiers="IP" entry from the ovf file, both the networking properties (IP and gateway) were displayed in the deployment screen and we could configure and deploy the VM successfully.

Example ovf template:

     <Property ovf:key="network.ip0.__NAME__" ovf:userConfigurable="true" ovf:type="string" vmw:qualifiers="Ip">
        <Label>Network 1 IP Address</Label>
        <Description>The IP address for this interface. </Description>
      </Property>

Please let us know if support for vmw:qualifiers  has been removed in ovf template for deployments on vCenter Server 8.0.U1. This property allowed for IPv4 address validation during deployment.

Thank you

[Gizzie · Accepted solution]

This is a known issue, currently there is no resolution.

A workaround has been described here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/93677

[AMUL01]

Thanks a lot. This really helps