I've been tasked with testing out multiple SSL VPN solutions for our company. Naturally before putting it into our dev or production servers I wanted create a test environment with two desktops to try out different SSL VPN trials.
Client: Version 1.23.0 (Build 6360286)
Host:Version 6.5.0 (Build 6765664)
I deployed F5-BIG-IP's OVA (1.36GB) perfectly fine and could experiment around with the software. Next I went to try out Array Network's vxAG (2.40GB) and it failed with different errors, I thought it may just be Array's OVA is corrupt. From there I went out and tried damn small linux to see if it was an OVA problem but the linux client deployed without a hitch. So I went to try to deploy Pulse Secure SSL VPN solution which is an VMDK and OVF file (3.02GB) and that eventually error-ed out just like Array Network's. I tried uploading a large file and that ending up failing (Windows install.esd 2.87GB) so I have a feeling it has something to do with the file sizes.
Here are the multiple different errors:
If I try to create a new virtual machine the OVA it gets to a random percent freezes and eventually gives the 'Result: Failed - Upload disk cancelled' and I get a "Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed" error (Note the VMDK file uploads to the datastore but not the OVF or MF)
If I try to just upload the file to the datastore it also gets to the same percent, freezes then after a random amount of time the OVA shows in the datastore, but if you close the datastore page and reopen it the file magically disappears! Meanwhile the 'Upload file to datastore' Task is still hanging at the same percent.
Array Network's vxAG gets to 74-75% then fails
Pulse gets to 60% and fails
The Windows install.esd gets to 60% and fails
Attempted troubleshooting
I've tried Chrome, Firefox, and IE
I've tried ESXi 6.0 and different builds of 6.5
I've patched to the most up-to-date host and client version (Suggested in related discussions:ESXi 6.0 U2 - "Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed." - when importing a OVA template via ESXi Host Client 1.5.0.)
I've tried messing with certificates and DNS to a degree
Added a licencing key
I really rather not resort to using the ovftool even though I constantly hear how amazing it is.
Does anyone have a fix or other troubleshooting routes I could take? Any help would be much appreciated!