OVFTool error in deploying OVF

hongning123 · ‎08-24-2017

I just installed a new Vmware ESXI 6.5 and using OVFTool to deploy an OVF created using ESXI 5.5 (VM Hardware version 😎

I used the following command

ovftool --acceptAllEulas --X:logFile=c:\temp\errorvm.log --X:logLevel=verbose -ds="datastore1" -n="VTESTHOST2" --diskMode=thick F:\VMWareBackup\Vserver1.ovf vi://root:password@10.1.2.222

I get an error Transfer Failed

Here is part of the log. Take note that this command will work on an ESXI 5.5 server. Thanks for any ideas

2017-08-24T15:25:46.648-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing version 6.5...

2017-08-24T15:25:46.648-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsed product version1: 6.5 -> 6.5.0

2017-08-24T15:25:46.648-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing version 5.0...

2017-08-24T15:25:46.648-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsed product version2: 5.0 -> 5.0.0

2017-08-24T15:25:49.357-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing version 6.5...

2017-08-24T15:25:49.357-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsed product version1: 6.5 -> 6.5.0

2017-08-24T15:25:49.357-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing version 4.1...

2017-08-24T15:25:49.357-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsed product version2: 4.1 -> 4.1.0

2017-08-24T15:25:52.500-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Mapped deviceId '/VTESTHOST2/VirtualLsiLogicSASController0:0' to URL 'https://10.1.2.222:443/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/disk-0.vmdk'

2017-08-24T15:25:52.500-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Mapped deviceId '/VTESTHOST2/nvram' to URL 'https://10.1.2.222:443/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/VTESTHOST2.nvram'

2017-08-24T15:25:52.500-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.500-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.501-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing OVF rewriter...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing OVF rewriter...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Using file size as progress measure

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] OvfPackageSourceBase getting file source

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Upload disk do no convert

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] HttpWriterFactory web request : https://10.1.2.222:443/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/disk-0.vmdk

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing new curl session

2017-08-24T15:25:52.511-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.511-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.511-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] https://10.1.2.222:443/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/disk-0.vmdk is redirected to https://10.1.2.222/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/disk-0.vmdk

2017-08-24T15:25:52.511-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Changing HttpWriterFactory path to https://10.1.2.222/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366

2017-08-24T15:26:31.753-07:00 verbose OVFTool[08312] [Originator@6876 sub=HttpConnectionPool-000001] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x00000000037acee8, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '10.1.1.195:443'>>)>; pooled: 0

2017-08-24T15:28:46.199-07:00 verbose OVFTool[08336] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Curl_perform error code 55 (Failed sending data to the peer)

2017-08-24T15:28:46.199-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] CURL error buffer: SSL_write() returned SYSCALL, errno = 10053

2017-08-24T15:28:46.199-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Connection error during upload

2017-08-24T15:28:46.199-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Connection error, sleep then retry (10 remaining)

2017-08-24T15:28:51.206-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Backtrace:

--> [backtrace begin] product: VMware Workstation, version: e.x.p, build: build-5965791, tag: OVFTool, cpu: x86_64, os: windows, buildType: release

--> backtrace[00] vmacore.dll[0x001C9A1A]

--> backtrace[01] vmacore.dll[0x0005ABFF]

--> backtrace[02] vmacore.dll[0x0005BD9E]

--> backtrace[03] vmacore.dll[0x0001A19B]

--> backtrace[04] ovftool.exe[0x0008E1C5]

--> backtrace[05] ovftool.exe[0x0008E742]

--> backtrace[06] ovftool.exe[0x003DB237]

--> backtrace[07] MSVCR90.dll[0x00074830]

--> backtrace[08] MSVCR90.dll[0x00043B3C]

--> backtrace[09] ntdll.dll[0x00092A63]

--> backtrace[10] ovftool.exe[0x0009CC7E]

--> backtrace[11] ovftool.exe[0x00050984]

--> backtrace[12] ovftool.exe[0x00050FAC]

--> backtrace[13] ovftool.exe[0x0005120A]

--> backtrace[14] ovftool.exe[0x00054C13]

--> backtrace[15] ovftool.exe[0x0004A853]

--> backtrace[16] vmacore.dll[0x0015B975]

--> backtrace[17] vmacore.dll[0x0015BCDA]

--> backtrace[18] vmacore.dll[0x001E46E6]

--> backtrace[19] MSVCR90.dll[0x00002FDF]

--> backtrace[20] MSVCR90.dll[0x00003080]

--> backtrace[21] KERNEL32.DLL[0x000013D2]

--> backtrace[22] ntdll.dll[0x000154E4]

--> [backtrace end]

2017-08-24T15:28:51.206-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vi4Target::Abort] started.

2017-08-24T15:28:53.210-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vi4Target::Abort] HttpNfcLease->Abort() is called.

2017-08-24T15:28:53.222-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vi4Target::WaitForEntityDestroyDone] Found the entity 'VTESTHOST2', wait for 5 seconds...

2017-08-24T15:28:58.233-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vi4Target::WaitForEntityDestroyDone] The entity 'VTESTHOST2' is gone or even not created yet.

2017-08-24T15:28:58.234-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Destruction of ViTarget

parmarr · ‎09-08-2017

There is a lot of known OVF issues mentioned on the vSphere 6.5 Release Notes, https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-65-release-notes.html, but nothing is matching your issue. As this is a new deployement of ESXi 6.5, did you confirm that objects such as datastore1, VTESTHOST2 etc are accessible to the new ESXi 6.5 host.

Sincerely, Rahul Parmar VMware Support Moderator