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ehabmahmoudmoha
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Resolve Failed to Deploy OVA / OVF Issue (PostNFCdata Failed)

During the deployment of OVA or OVF appliance I have faced an issue which is:

Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed: Capacity of an uploaded disk is larger than requested

OVF upload issue.JPG

Also; the upload process has failed with the listed issue:

OVA upload issue 1.JPG

This issue occurs when an incorrect ovf capacity size is specified in the OVF file that is being deployed.

To resolve this issue, I have increased the disk size in the OVF file to match the actual size of the vmdk in the OVF, to increase disk size in OVF file follow listed steps

  • Navigate to the location of the OVF file, also if you have OVA file just unzip OVA file and start to edit the OVF file after that.
  • Open the OVF file using the text editor, and locate these tags to check the OVF disk actual size.
    <DiskSection> </DiskSection>

Before correction ovf capacity

disk before.JPG

After correction ovf capacity

disk after.JPG


Note: Size format is in MB.
  • Save and close the file.
  • Deploy the OVF again.
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parkar_0456
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hi,

I have exactly same problem mentioned below.

How you calculate 1700. I have 42 and 30 values.

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ehabmahmoudmoha
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This based on the disk file size as I mentioned, first you have to check disk file then changed to bytes unit and open the configuration file of OVA/OVF and updated as calculated.

That size is not mandatory for all cases, no its a specific case-by-case.

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