Deploying OVF Template stuck "Validating..." for hours

[M1chaelGray]

Any advice?

[SeeSiteCanCom]

Just a hint,

I had the same problem/issue as you and I got another hint. I tried almost everything that made sense.

After a while a colluge saide, try https://hostname:443 (No FQDN!) and use in your browser explicit (No Proxy!).

Believe me, after 17 years of using and administrating VMware, my face must looked like a donkey seeing a UFO! But, it worked!

Regards

SeeSite

[dave6722]

In my case The suggestion review was very helpful for me.  using the FQDN worked perfectly.

[Vijaya99]

Hello 

Connect  vSphere Clinet WEB by FQDN name 

Thanks 

[Fazid72]

You also need to have proper name resolution. The ESXi hosts should be resolvable from you box where you run browser under names exactly as visible in vcenter.

[trenrick]

Thank you because I spent hours trying to get this to work.

Resolved by using hostname:443 for whatever reason it worked.

[corey_trimiar]

I had the same issue. The workaround that worked for me was I logged in to vsphere with the local administrator account vs logging in with my domain credentials.