topic Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf in Network Security

vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Rizwan Shah — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:36:52 GMT

Dear Team

I have downloaded the vfmc for esxi 7.4.X and 7.3X but i cannot deploy in VMware after deployment its retturn "operating system not found"

any idea

Regards

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Marvin Rhoads — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:33:05 GMT

The feature definitely works as I have deployed dozen for FMCv appliances this way.

Please share the exact file name you are using

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Yan1 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:42:27 GMT

Well you are right, past never happened but since we tried all below but no success
"Cisco_Secure_FW_Mgmt_Center_Virtual_VMware-7.4.1-172"
"Cisco_Secure_FW_Mgmt_Center_Virtual_VMware-7.4.0-118"
"Cisco_Secure_FW_Mgmt_Center_Virtual_VMware-7.3.1-19"
but 6.XX 7.05 is working no issue.
we have open ticket with vmware support engineer connected yesterday but again no success then he took logs & fmc template for his lab test now we are waiting for his reply.

i have separate esxi workstation 6.5 for test but same issue.

Thanks

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Marvin Rhoads — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:47:29 GMT

Yes, that seems very odd. The procedure is prett much the same across versions. Here is the latest one: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/quick_start/fmcv/fpmc-virtual/fpmc-virtual-vmware.html#id_66353

We deploy using the .ovf and .vmdk files.

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Yan1 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:56:35 GMT

Yeah followed the same but it seems issue with mf or vmdk file, did you tried these latest vfmcs

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Marius Gunnerud — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:28:02 GMT

I installed FMCv 7.3 maybe 3 weeks ago without any issues.

I am assuming you have checked the MD5 / SHA256 values to verify the file you downloaded?

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Yan1 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:22:44 GMT

Thanks issue is solved, checksum vales were not matching because of improper decompression by some of the windows utilities but after proper decompression its now working fine it took time to solved because the error message was not clear but it was all about decompression.

Thanks

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Marius Gunnerud — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:40:52 GMT

Nice! Please remember select a correct answer or answers that helped as this will assist others that are searching for similar issues and also award points to contributors.

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

cball111 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:08:05 GMT

What tool did you use to decompress? Ben fighting this for a week or so now.

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Rizwan Shah — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 11:17:22 GMT

yes cball it was 7zip
https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
it will decompress it 2 time first from gz to tar then tar to exact package.

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

tomplixer — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:16:16 GMT

Cisco really needs to add a note about this in the FMCv deployment docs. Currently it states "Uncompress the installation package archive using your preferred tool" with no mention of issues using Windows. I was just on a call with Cisco TAC for 2 hours and they couldn't figure it out, luckily I finally found this thread.

+1 for 7zip

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

cball111 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:05:35 GMT

I had trouble with 7-zip as well. In the end, I created a small Kali Linux VM, extracted the files and uploaded from there. Worked like a charm on my ESXi 8 cluster.

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

Claudio L. de Matos Jr — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:17:16 GMT

For me with Winrar ddin't work, only 7zip that worked.

Re: vfmc-7.4 cannot deploy ovf

uffinfoadmin — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:12:54 GMT

We had the same problem with Cisco_Secure_FW_Mgmt_Center_Virtual_VMware-7.7.11-1061.tar.gz. The default Windows tool had corrupted the files and trying to deploy it with vSphere 8 after 1% the process would crash with a timeout. As suggested in this post we solved by using 7z for decompression.