This article will help with issue during deploying ova image directly in VMWare ESXi. Currently RD till 2.9.0 is supported on ESXi version 8.0.

Issue reported that user can download the ova image (routing-director-2.90.11491.ova) but when they try to load it into vCentre 8 the image has an error.

The error "1 required file(s) missing: browse again and use multiple selection to reselect the OVF template and all required files. If you are trying to import a .ova file then it may be missing file(s). Missing file(s) : routing-director-2.9.0-disk2.vmdk"

This is currently a known issue with RD ova image direct deploy in VMWare ESXi 8.0.

To fix or mitigate the problem-

• Extract the ova file: *(using tar command)
• You will get 4 files-
  • root@ubuntu:# tar -xvf routing-director-2.9.0-build.ova
    • routing-director-2.9.0.ovf
    • routing-director-2.9.0.mf
    • routing-director-2.9.0.g4d10b39074-disk1.vmdk
    • routing-director-2.9.0-disk2.vmdk
•  During VM Deploy using ova -> use all these 4 files and proceed.

Please follow the above steps for the issue fix. If still issue is seen please contact JTAC support