Error "OVF descriptor is not available" when deploying VLR appliance from vCenter

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

• VLR appliance deployment from vCenter fails with error  "OVF descriptor is not available".
  
  
• Deploying same VLR OVF from the ESX console, doesn't prompt for networking configuration when the appliance finally boots.

Environment

VMware Live Site Recovery 9.x

Cause

The error occurs due to an issue with the Content Library service in vCenter. This service is responsible for managing the deployment of OVF packages.

Resolution

Try restarting the Content Library service.... 

Option 1. To restart the service via cmdline, 

1. Take a snapshot backup of the vCenter Server Appliance before proceeding.
2. ssh to vCenter Server Appliance
3. Execute the following commands in sequence to restart the Content Library service:
   
   
   • • service-control --stop vmware-content-library
     • service-control --start vmware-content-library
       
       

Option 2.  Restart the service thru UI VAMI Services.



Option 3: Reboot the vCenter Server Appliance. This will gracefully restart all automatic services and their dependencies.