VRLCM Installing PSpak fails with error LCMPSPACKDOWNLOAD16005

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

When installing PSpak on VRLCM the import fails with the following error  LCMPSPACKDOWNLOAD16005

Environment

VRLCM 8.x

Cause

The error  LCMPSPACKDOWNLOAD16005 indicates possible  bad download of the pspak
As noted by following errors in the log

2025-07-11 13:39:27.780 ERROR [pool-3-thread-26] c.v.v.l.p.c.p.t.OfflinePspackTask -  -- Exception happened while downloading the pspack
com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.commons.patch.exceptions.PatchException: Processing the Patch download failed..unexpected EOF. Please check the disk space..
        at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.drivers.patch.helper.PatchUtil.processPatchBinary(PatchUtil.java:650) ~[vmlcm-patchplugin-driver-8.14.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]
        at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.plugin.core.patch.tasks.OfflinePspackTask.execute(OfflinePspackTask.java:100) [vmlcm-patchplugin-core-8.14.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]
        at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.automata.core.TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java:62) [vmlcm-engineservice-core-8.14.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:?]
2025-07-11 13:39:27.780 INFO  [pool-3-thread-26] c.v.v.l.p.a.s.Task -  -- Injecting task failure event. Error Code : 'LCMPSPACKDOWNLOAD16005', Retry : 'true', Causing Properties : '{ CAUSE ::  }'
com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.commons.patch.exceptions.PatchException: Processing the Patch download failed..unexpected EOF. Please check the disk space..
        at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.drivers.patch.helper.PatchUtil.processPatchBinary(PatchUtil.java:650) ~[vmlcm-patchplugin-driver-8.14.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]
        at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.plugin.core.patch.tasks.OfflinePspackTask.execute(OfflinePspackTask.java:100) [vmlcm-patchplugin-core-8.14.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]
        at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.automata.core.TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java:62) [vmlcm-engineservice-core-8.14.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:?] 

Resolution

Confirm the file MD5 Checksum

Make a note of the MD5 Checksum from Broadcom support portal and compare it version downloaded

On Windows
Run PowerShell command 
Get-FileHash -Path "<path to file>"  -Algorithm MD5


On Unix run 
md5sum <path to file>