Getting Service unavailable Error while deploying multilanguage OVA

[dips_b]

I am working on multilanguage of OVF and followed below documents for same.

https://blogs.vmware.com/vapp/2009/09/ovf-localization.html

https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0243_1.0.0.pdf

I am able to generate ova successfully but am getting an error(PFA screenshots Error in chinese, Error in english) while deploying the ova.

I created two message files and one ovf descriptor which looks as shown below

Content of MyVM-en-US.msg file

<Strings xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xml:lang="en_US">

    <Msg ovf:msgid="Product.label">Product in English </Msg>

</Strings>

Content of MyVM-zh-CN.msg file

<Strings xml:lang="zh-CN">

    <Msg ovf:msgid="Product.label">▒▒▒ Product in Chinese</Msg>

</Strings>

OVF descriptor:

<Envelope xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:cim="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/common" xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData" xmlns:vmw="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf" xmlns:vssd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

    <References>

<File ovf:href="MyVM-zh-CN.msg" ovf:id="msgs1"/>

<File ovf:href="MyVM-en-US.msg" ovf:id="msgs3"/>

    </References>

<VirtualSystem>

<AnnotationSection ovf:required="false">

            <Info>A human-readable annotation</Info>

            <Annotation ovf:msgid="Product.label">OVF NAME: abc

            </Annotation>

        </AnnotationSection>

    </VirtualSystem>

<Strings xml:lang="ja_JP" ovf:fileRef="msgs2"/>

<Strings xml:lang="en_US" ovf:fileRef="msgs3"/>

</Envelope>

I am getting below error when I deploy the ova

"Service unavailable. Error getting https://<SERVER-IP>:443/cls/data/5fdc4919-c82b-4d3f-8a34-c13a7c91c86c/abc-file3.msg: HTTP/1.1 503"

I have uploaded screenshots of error as well as contents of ova.

Please suggest if I am missing something.

[MohAzizKandil]

Can you try the below:

I had the same issue and fixed it by using the URL instead of uploading from your PC:

How to deploy VMware virtual machine from an OVA directly from local datastore

You better use the FLEX not the HTML5 of the vCenter webclient

Have a great day!

Mohamed

[dips_b]

Thanks Mohamed,

but I can't restrict user to deploy OVA by using the URL instead of uploading from their PC. I am getting same error on FLEX also(PFA screenshot for same).

I generated a OVA which contains embedded locale and this OVA is working perfectly fine and am getting Chinese and Japanese locale also but it throws error when I externalize the locales.

Thanks,

Deepak