Failed to deploy VM: postNFCdata failed when deploying AlienVault to VMware ESXi 6.5

I have tried various browsers, including Edge, Chrome and Firefox but the error existed on all of them. I had no problem uploading the OVA file to the datastore but VMware just refused to import the damned OVA to a VM. I even asked nicely!

The Solution

There appears to be a few solutions but the one that worked for me was to use the VMware OVFTool to import the OVA file from the command line. Here’s the working command line.

1. Download Vmware OVF tool from its website and install.
https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/

2. If you istall OVF tool in C drive then,
            i. cd C:\
            ii. cd "Program Files"
            iii. cd VMware
            iv. cd "VMware OVF Tool"
3. Then for export VMware as this syntax
ovftool vi://username:password@vCenter1/Datacenter1/vm/SourceVM OVF.ovf

Eg. ovftool.exe vi://192.168.1.200/Test_Dev "W:TestOVF"
 Now its ask Esxi username and password type root user and password then continue to export ovf.

Note: The Special Characters used in the esxi password  are not supported so have to convert them to respective hex value followed by % using below link.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12_4/cfg_fund/command/reference/cfnapph.html

4. After exporting the VMware you can import to another esxi with the below syntax.


Eg. 
vftool.exe -ds=NAS_DATASTORE1 -nw="UAT" -dm=thin -n=Test_Dev "W:\NewOVF\Test_Dev\Test_Dev.ovf" vi://192.168.200.104



Hope this may help.