Recently I’ve had issues uploading OVF templates
to a vCloud Director’s catalog, there was no problem selecting the OVF template
but then I realized the upload did not progress over 1% and after a few hours
it times out.
Checking the vCD Cell’s log
(/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-debug.local) there was an
error message: “Resource descriptor.ovf not fully transferred yet”.
Since the OVF upload process is handle by REST
API and vCloud Director 5.6.4 brought a few new options to vCD Public Address configuration, I decided to start from there.
First I did something wrong with vCloud Director public REST API base URL and
started getting “cURL error: Couldn’t connect to server”
After correcting the URL, the error changed to
“Failed to connect to host on port 443”
This time it was due to an incorrect
certificate chain at vCloud Director
public REST API certificate chain.
Just set up the correct chain and the OVF upload started to work properly again.
There’s no one I could blame other than me.
Don’t
make my mistakes configuring the Public Address correctly ; )
