Deploying FMCv to VMware

[jturner2720]

I'm considering upgrading to the new FMC/FTD 10.x, so thought I would try deploying another FMCv to see what the upgrade experience was before actually doing my production instances.

However, I cannot get the OVF to deploy onto vSphere 8. I've tried both 7.4.6 and 7.6.5 and both fail out with transfer errors deploying the package. My previous instances were deployed onto vSphere 7 which were later upgraded.

Anyone seen similar and/or have some ideas of ways to get it to deploy?

[Mark Elsen]

  - @jturner2720            Can you post these transfer errors ?

  M.

[jturner2720]

This is the rather unhelpful error that VMware gives.

[jturner2720 · Accepted solution]

I've managed to solve it. Looks like the zip tool built in to Win11 mangles extracting. Whereas using 7zip instead and it all works.

[Marvin Rhoads]

This is a known issue with tar.gz files in Windows. You can also use "tar -xvf <filename>" from the Windows cli to get it unzipped.