Error "The selected OVF is referencing more files than you are uploading:" when deploying an OVA in VCD

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• Try to deploy an OVA in the tenant portal, but get following error message:
  • The selected OVF is referencing more files than you are uploading: <filename>.vmdk, .
• Unzipping the OVA and try to deploy the vApp with the .ovf, .vmdk, .mf and .cert results with the same error.
• Deploying the OVA in the vCenter works fine.

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1

Cause

Currently VCD does not handle the EnvironmentFilesSection from the ovf. VCD validates OVF descriptors against the OVF 1.0 specification.

VCD is validating with https://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1/ and 1.x xsd versions doesn't support EnvironmentFilesSection.

Additional Info EnvironmentFilesSection is in xsd version 2.0. Refer https://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/2/dsp8023.xsd

Resolution

Since, VCD does not handle the EnvironmentFilesSection from the ovf, it is currently unsupported and the following workarounds are available:

1. Remove the unsupported EnvironmentFilesSection from the OVF descriptor file after extracting the OVA.
2. Deploy the OVA into vCenter Server and Import it into VCD as vApp Template in Catalog for Tenants to use.