Unexpected error: the following NVRAM
Unexpected error: the following NVRAM files cannot be imported: artica_430_sp206-2.nvram
If you receive this error : "Unexpected error: the following NVRAM files cannot be imported: artica_430_sp206-2.nvram", this means you using a VSphere version before 6.7
To avoid this error, you can download the OVA file here or perform the following procedure
- Download and install the Open Virtualization Format Tool (ovftool)
- Uncompress the OVF. You will get 4 files
- Delete the nvram file
- Edit the ovf file ( artica_430_sp206.ovf )
- Delete the following lines :
<vmw:ExtraConfig ovf:required="false" vmw:key="nvram" vmw:value="ovf:/file/file2"/>
<File ovf:id="file2" ovf:href="artica_430_sp206-2.nvram" ovf:size="8684"/>
- Change the line :
<vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-13</vssd:VirtualSystemType>
To
<vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-11</vssd:VirtualSystemType>
- Change the line :
<OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="96" ovf:version="10" vmw:osType="debian10_64Guest">
To
<OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="96" ovf:version="8" vmw:osType="debian8_64Guest">
- Open a PowerShell command and run the following commands
cd D:\artica-proxy-4.30.000000.debian10-amd64-esxi6.5.ovf
(Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 artica_430_sp206.ovf).Hash.Tolower()
copy the SHA (example 57457bfb057fa95fbff4c8d597dc27737a5b73c2ee707e3dc00b77631eb0f837 )
- Save the ovf file
- Edit *. mf file ( artica_430_sp206.mf )
- Remove the line:
SHA256(artica_430_sp206-2.nvram)= 609da959843e2cee43c970ea36d8915b9ab2520d44d2da1df3a8f65626be97bf
- Change the line:
SHA256(artica_430_sp206.ovf)= fefd1e927048efec051fd26e39679f5191f2c32b52639fc760aae4b5528453bd
To:
SHA256(artica_430_sp206.ovf)= 57457bfb057fa95fbff4c8d597dc27737a5b73c2ee707e3dc00b77631eb0f837
- Run the following command :
cd "c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool"
ovftool.exe D:\artica-proxy-4.30.000000.debian10-amd64-esxi6.5.ovf\artica_430_sp206.ovf D:\artica-proxy-4.30.000000.debian10-amd64-esxi6.5.ovf\artica-proxy-4.30.000000.debian10-amd64-esxi6.5.ova
- You can now upload the
artica-proxy-4.30.000000.debian10-amd64-esxi6.5.ovato your VSphere