Large VM copy to vCloud Director fails with "OVF Import failed. Attempted read from closed socket." error

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

Copying a large virtual machine to vCloud Director can fail during the "import to destination cloud" phase for the following reasons:

• Destination vCloud Director does not have enough storage on transfer spooling area
  
• Transfer session timed out

Environment

VMware vCloud Connector 2.0.x

Resolution

1. Increase the transfer spooling area of vCloud Director by mounting the required storage to /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer.
2. Increase the vCloud Director transfer session timeout:
   
1. Log on to vCloud Director as a system administrator.
2. Select the System > Administration tab, then select General in the Administration panel.
3. Under Timeouts, increase the Transfer session timeout.