The error vary depending where you are uploading them to:
When
importing the vApps directly to My Cloud the messages says, “failed to create”.
When
importing the vApps directly to Catalog the messages says, “Quarantine
Expired”.
It turns
out it’s not a bug or an issue with the system, it’s just a feature, which I did
know nothing about it, learning a new thing every day : )
vCloud
Director has the ability to quarantine the files users are uploading to the
system for further investigation before making them available. It’s a perfect use case if you want to scan
the files with an antivirus solution for instance.
First you need
to enable it on your vCloud Environment
- Login to
vCloud, click on Administration tab
click on General
- Scroll
down to Timeouts, enable the
Quarantine option and set the timeout for it.
Now you can
go ahead and upload your OVF.
When you
upload it directly to My Cloud, the vApps status will be Pending.
If not action is taken, after the time period you set up for timeout, the upload fails and
the status change to Failed to Create.
When you upload
it directly to a Catalog, the vApps status will be Quarantined.
If not action is taken, after the time period you set up for timeout, the upload fails and
the status change to Quarantine Expired.
It worths to mention that while the item was quarantined, it was not available to others users deploy it.
As you can see by browsing the Catalog.
This post
is not intended to show how to create a monitoring/quarantine solution for
vCloud (may be in the future), it’s just about to create awareness of the feature instead.
The vCloud Director Admin Guide has a section about Monitoring Quarantine Files.
Obs:
During my
research I found a blog post from Magnus Andersson, which stats this feature was not working because it
has been deprecated in favor of API and blocking tasks.
While I’m not
here to doubt about his information, I want to show that in fact this feature
is working on my environment, may be because I’m using vCloud 5.5 and someone
might have fixed it (Magnus was using vCD 5.1.2).
I will also try
to confirm internally if this feature was been deprecate indeed and I’ll let you know.
See you
