OVA deployment - "Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available"

[jorge_c]

Hello,

I am having a problem when trying to deploy an OVA file. The message "Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available" is displayed. Any suggestions? Much appreciated.

[AlanKass1701]

Thank you, this worked for me!

[Pontificus]

1/14/2023:  I had this same problem.  The solution for me was to assign the VM to the ESXi HOST and not the datacenter or cluster.  It imported correctly then.  In this case, I had a cluster of only one host (Horizon 8, installed via VCenter).  Probably logging directly into the ESXi web interface would have done the same thing.

[DGR_MKeeton]

Late to the party but interestingly as of latest OVF attempt Firefox failed first time around (Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available") and Edge worked fine. To be fair I didn't try closing browser, reauthenticating nor using private window. Either way for people looking at this issue, the first easy checks are to ensure you are logged in and authenticated to vCenter in the web browser followed by trying a different web browser. That is as long as vCenter and ESXi host certs are trusted on the particular computer attempting to upload from.

[tinkeredthinker]

Surprisingly, Firefox worked like a charm. Thanks

[mandeeeps468]

I was also facing same error message with chrome browser and then switched to firefox.

Thanks @avinsh 

[aartik1]

It is 2024 now and the same issue still persists with the latest Edge, Chrome.

Ultimately firefox(latest version) helped me to solve this error. Thanks.

[skumar33]

when we faced this issue, we disabled proxy in the browser and the deployment got completed.

[RichardKenyan]

It is 2024, and this is still an issue...just adding to the pile as I found this as the first search engine hit:

Edge - Version 122.0.2365.92 (Official build) (64-bit) - failed

Swapped to Firefox - 123.0.1 (64-bit) - worked fine

no other changes other than switching a browser.