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Nathan C
Asked: 2013-05-25 08:16:08 +0800 CST

Deployment of vCenter Operations Manager failing

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I recently downloaded a trial of vCenter Operations Manager to deploy to our ESXi 4 environment. I wanted to test this software to see if it would be useful, but I cannot seem to get it working. First, I tried to import the .ova into VirtualBox, which fails:

Failed to import appliance VMware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp.ovf.

Could not verify the content of 'VMware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp.mf' against the available files (VERR_MANIFEST_FILE_MISMATCH).

Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004) Component: Appliance Interface: IAppliance {3059cf9e-25c7-4f0b-9fa5-3c42e441670b}

I download an sha1 verifier and got the following results:

fciv.exe -add VMware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp -sha1
cb1daf36ef679b3a91f53ceadffaff2800dc3321 vmware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp\VMwar e-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-data.vmdk
cb1daf36ef679b3a91f53ceadffaff2800dc3321 vmware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp\VMwar e-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-data2.vmdk
b7b963b59bae0aa3df911954007e81648492f63c vmware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp\VMwar e-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-system.vmdk
b0bd7f733f55866da1a888eeace24d3c58d9511b vmware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp\VMwar e-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp.cert
a9459d02f72559d840c30fa769f3649dbc3ebd55 vmware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp\VMwar e-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp.mf
070574d5efffb201bff8ad3166ad456a7ceef2d6 vmware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp\VMwar e-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp.ovf

SHA1 hashes as shown in the manifest file referenced:

SHA1 (VMware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-data.vmdk) = cb1daf36ef679b3a91f53ceadffaff2800dc3321
SHA1 (VMware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-data2.vmdk) = cb1daf36ef679b3a91f53ceadffaff2800dc3321
SHA1 (VMware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-system.vmdk) = b7b963b59bae0aa3df911954007e81648492f63c
SHA1 (VMware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp.ovf) = 070574d5efffb201bff8ad3166ad456a7ceef2d6

So I thought "the file must be corrupted". I then hashed the actual .ova file itself: SHA1 = ae8f10fe1b7f51b10fa7c1945e71434d33b0f8e3 vmware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp.ova
MD5 = 89bddfd645b86ebe16c6102b631a4b91 vmware-vcops-5.7.0.0-1073531-vapp.ova

From their website:
SHA1SUM(¹): ae8f10fe1b7f51b10fa7c1945e71434d33b0f8e3
MD5SUM(¹): 89bddfd645b86ebe16c6102b631a4b91

So, all hashes match up and yet it refuses to import. So, I decided to import it into the vSphere client and get the following:

Line 68: Unsupported element "VirtualSystemCollection"

I'm at a loss here...if anyone has any ideas please let me know!

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    From the Deployment and Configuration Guide vCenter Operations Manager 5

    vCenter Operations Manager is a vApp that you import and deploy with a vCenter Server system.

    So you will need to connect with your vSphere Client to a vCenter and then deploy the OVA to that environment.

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