vSphere Replication 8.4 OVF deployments hang at 'vService bindings' step on VC67u3q

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• vCenter builds are specifically VC67u3q-19300125
• Deployment of a vSphere Replication 8.4 appliance hangs on step 10. vService bindings, and may eventually throw page Unrepsonsive message.
• Cmdline OVFTool deployment action fails citing vServiceDependency issues. 

 

Environment

VMware vSphere Replication 8.x

Cause

vSphere Replication 8.5 no-longer requires vService bindings step to deploy OVF.

VC67u3q-19300125 has been patched to only progress VR8.5 OVF deployments.

Resolution

This issue has been addressed in VC67p07-U3r (19832974)

Workaround:

• If clean deploying VR8.4 in VC67u3q environment, then consider vSphere Replication 8.5-18710774. 

Additional Information

If you see an error such as 'Unsupported section' '{http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf}vServiceDependencySection'(A vService dependency)', refer to Error at vService Bindings When Deploying the vSphere Replication Appliance 8.4 (https://docs.vmware.com/en/vSphere-Replication/8.4/com.vmware.vsphere.replication-admin.doc/GUID-AFBC654B-DFAE-483B-BB5F-CDD108584470.html)