Problems importing the OVA file into vCenter 6.5

[cormite]

When importing the provided OVA file (version 2.4.3-1) into vCenter (or ESXi straight) I came across the following error:

"The provided manifest file is invalid: Invalid OVF manifest entry: ."

After a couple of investigations I realized that the problem came from the ResourceSubType PIIX4:

- 48:10:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ‘‘PIIX4’’ of ResourceSubType element not found in [].
- 57:10:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ‘‘PIIX4’’ of ResourceSubType element not found in [].
- 66:10:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ‘‘3’’ of Parent element does not refer to a ref of type DiskControllerReference.

Finally I was able to resolve the issue by modifying lines in the OVF file from lines 48 to lines 65 as follows:

Original block:

<Item>
    <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>
    <rasd:Caption>ideController0</rasd:Caption>
    <rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description>
    <rasd:ElementName>ideController0</rasd:ElementName>
    <rasd:InstanceID>3</rasd:InstanceID>
    <rasd:ResourceSubType>PIIX4</rasd:ResourceSubType>
    <rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType>
 </Item>
 <Item>
    <rasd:Address>1</rasd:Address>
    <rasd:Caption>ideController1</rasd:Caption>
    <rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description>
    <rasd:ElementName>ideController1</rasd:ElementName>
    <rasd:InstanceID>4</rasd:InstanceID>
    <rasd:ResourceSubType>PIIX4</rasd:ResourceSubType>
    <rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType>
 </Item>

Modified block:

<Item>
    <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>
    <rasd:Caption>SCSIController</rasd:Caption>
    <rasd:Description>SCSI Controller</rasd:Description>
    <rasd:ElementName>SCSIController</rasd:ElementName>
    <rasd:InstanceID>3</rasd:InstanceID>
    <rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
    <rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
</Item>
<Item>
    <rasd:Address>1</rasd:Address>
    <rasd:Caption>SCSIController</rasd:Caption>
    <rasd:Description>SCSI Controller</rasd:Description>
    <rasd:ElementName>SCSIController</rasd:ElementName>
    <rasd:InstanceID>4</rasd:InstanceID>
    <rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
    <rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
</Item>

I hope this helps others solve the importing of the virtual appliance into VMware environments.

Best regards,
Carlos.

[joschi]

@cormite Which version of ESXi and vCenter are you using exactly?

[cormite]

@joschi
I run: VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.0.14100 Build Number 7801515
And for ESXi two versions:

• VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 7526125
• VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 5969303

Best regards,
Carlos.

[jalogisch]

ref: https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-ova-import-problems/4422/12

[casellia]

Have you tried to directly access the ESX host and deploy the OVA file?

[cormite]

Dear @casellia,

Please follow the ref. specified by @jalogisch (https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-ova-import-problems/4422/12). This case was fixed and closed.

Thanks,
Carlos.

[jusromaine]

Im getting this even with your fix Issues detected with selected template. Details: - 74:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value ''6'' of Parent element does not refer to a ref of type DiskControllerReference.

[mariussturm]

Hi,
could you please retry with the latest 3.0 beta image? In 3.0.0-beta-4 we removed the problematic sound card and switched from an IDE disk controller to a SATA one.

https://packages.graylog2.org/releases/graylog-omnibus/ova/graylog-pre-3.0.0-9.beta.4.ova

[jusromaine]

Was there anything I was supposed to do with it first because I got this with it as is. Thanks

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[nathjnair]

Hi,
could you please retry with the latest 3.0 beta image? In 3.0.0-beta-4 we removed the problematic sound card and switched from an IDE disk controller to a SATA one.

https://packages.graylog2.org/releases/graylog-omnibus/ova/graylog-pre-3.0.0-9.beta.4.ova

Thank you for the help, tried the new beta OVA but encountered the following errors.
Line 57: No space left for device '7' on parent controller '5'.
Line 48: Unsupported virtual hardware device 'AHCI'.

[mariussturm]

@nathjnair looks like the VirtualBox SATA controller is not supported by VmWare, so last option would be to be to use a SCSI controller instead. Will try this today.

[mariussturm]

@nathjnair could you give rc.1 a try? It's using the scsi controller now and was tested successfully with Virtaulbox 5.2 and VMware Fusion 11 https://packages.graylog2.org/releases/graylog-omnibus/ova/graylog-pre-3.0.0-10.rc.1.ova

Unfortunately we dont have a vCenter installation available to fully reproduce your issues.

[nathjnair]

@nathjnair could you give rc.1 a try? It's using the scsi controller now and was tested successfully with Virtaulbox 5.2 and VMware Fusion 11 https://packages.graylog2.org/releases/graylog-omnibus/ova/graylog-pre-3.0.0-10.rc.1.ova

Unfortunately we dont have a vCenter installation available to fully reproduce your issues.

Hi mariussturn, Thank you for your help, the ova you mentioned is working.

By the way, I am not using vcenter setup, I am using the free version of ESXi 6.5

I have successfully able to bring up web gui, but the default username and password (admin/admin) is not working, tried to reset the password using graylog-ctl , but the command is not recognised by the system.

[mariussturm]

@nathjnair ok cool, thanks for the feedback. Closing the issue for now.

[PukinDogs]

Just tried to import the OVA for Graylog-3.2.2-1 using Vcenter 6.7.0 Build 10244857

I received the same manifest error
"The provided manifest file is invalid: Invalid OVF manifest entry: ."

Unfortunately Editing OVF file from lines 48 to lines 65 with the above change did not fix the issue.