Solved: Download links not working

jimcleek · ‎05-04-2020

Signed up to get the bare bones hypervisor and none of the download links work. I click them and nothing happens. 2 computers with several browsers and the download link doesn't work. Sometimes the browser shows logged in, sometimes not. Occasionally it says I am not eligible to download but wait, this is a free product. Why can I not download 7.0 Hypervisor?

a_p_ · ‎05-04-2020

The link that you've posted doesn't work for me either.

However, switching to https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7 works (note the "/en" in the URL).

André

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a_p_ · ‎05-04-2020

What's the exact URL from that shows up? In the past there were sometimes issues with different localized web pages.

In case you are using https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7, you may try to either remove "/en" from the URL, or replace it with another language, e.g. "/de".

Not sure whether this is the case here, but at least worth a try!?

André

jimcleek · ‎05-04-2020

The page with the download button is:

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7

When I view source for the actual download I get:

https://download2.vmware.com/software/esx/700/&filename=VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0.0-15843807.x86_...

Trying to go there outside the download button I get THE SITE CAN'T BE REACHED.

The button does nothing.

a_p_ · ‎05-04-2020

The link that you've posted doesn't work for me either.

However, switching to https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7 works (note the "/en" in the URL).

André

jimcleek · ‎05-04-2020

That link results in no download buttons...

jimcleek · ‎05-04-2020

Ok, looks like I found a way to download it. Sure would be a much better intro to VMWARE to have links that actually work...

Thank you for the help.

a_p_ · ‎05-04-2020

I definitely agree. Would you mind to share what worked for you in the end?

André

wimdecorte · ‎07-29-2020

Having the same issue:

The download buttons on

https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsphere-eval-7#tab_download

and

https://my.vmware.com//group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7

don't work. macOS 10.14.6, tried all browsers: FireFox, Edge, Chrome and Safari - all browsers up to date.

Properly logged into my account. ESXi 7 shows up under my account as an active evaluation.

Very frustrating!! Any tips to get it working?

dirty_white_hat · ‎10-28-2020

Ok,

So I ran in to this problem and here is how I solved it. I took the full URL from the button action in the page:

https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/evalcenter?p_p_id=evalcenter_WAR_itevals_INSTANCE_z9LN&p_p_lif...

That will lead you to a blank white page with some text that appears to be a response to the query that has a unique session key required to download the file. So I can't give you the link from that page, it only works for my log in session. Copy the URL from that page.

It looks like this "{"popupurl":"https://download2.vmware.com/software/esx/700b/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0b-16324942.x86_64.iso?Has..."

Take just the URL out and when you navigate to there the download begins. So it's only two URL pastes away but you shouldn't have to manually navigate the page like it's 1989 up in here. There is a button. They should fix it.

kwaxi · ‎02-14-2021

I can't get the VMware vSphere ESXi7 downloads working, in Chrome there are some errors marked as cirtical, when I try to download manually, with curl I managed to fetch the following:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Error</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
An error occurred while processing your request.<p>
Reference&#32;&#35;50&#46;5f5b6068&#46;1613337835&#46;1f0ca7bb
</BODY></HTML>

Any ideas how to resolve this and why VMware doesn't manage to fix this?

Samuraiizzy · ‎04-04-2021

You're wonderful. I had gotten that far but when I saw that page I got intimidated and left lol but it worked wonderfully.

frobnitzz · ‎10-19-2021

I had to do the same (grab popup URL from the button source) to get it working, weird how it's still an issue!

RobertEadie · ‎10-28-2021

Just had to jump through the same hoops for 7.0U3 . . . why on earth can't VMWare sort out a simple web page button so that it works? (Thanks for the hints which enabled me to download my ISO file!)

Oliver_Weber · ‎01-01-2022

It is now 02. January 2022 and this is still the same way - the button doesn't work. Now that I worked out how to download it from the solution posted by a previous poster (manual button link, see above) I will try this software but won't expect anything good, seeing as this is a very tiny issue and if they can't even get that working reliably (it's a goddamn button!) than my hope for this software is almost non-existent.

How do you **bleep** up a download button?

wesg79 · ‎01-14-2022

kind of what I was thinking, pretty mickey mouse for enterprise level. everytime i want to download my products... the download link doesnt work

apn1 · ‎02-18-2022

2022 here, download button still doesn't work - but this method of manually digging out the url twice still works.

XeDev · ‎02-21-2022

This worked for me:

Disable all adblockers you may have ( This includes browser plugins and network level adblockers such as Pi-hole)

Retry the download.

Hope this can help.

XeDev · ‎02-21-2022

Sorry, forgot to mention: Reload the downloads page after disabling the adblockers Sorry for posting again: Noticed this too late for an edit.

Liam_T · ‎02-27-2022

found an excellent solution from "Shading Blue"

https://www.trok.info/2021/03/vmware-download-buttons-arent-working.html

BeeMwer · ‎03-19-2022

Thanks Liam_T for posting the solution that worked for me.

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Download links not working