Hello,
I am attempting to set up a Hortonworks sandbox on our VSphere 5.5 lab environment. We have deployed many times before and have had various problems, but this is a new one to me.
After selecting the OVA file from my local disk within the File/Deploy OVF Template wizard, and selecting where to store the VM (we use SAN), it errors out after I click "Finish" with the error "Failed to Deploy OVF package: A general system error occurred: Failed to write to C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\journal\1433426209.11: Error writing file. There is not enough space on the disk."
I don't know why it is trying to write a journal file to my local workstation, but at any rate the path referenced in the error did not exist. I tried creating those folders but the same error was returned.
Note that this is a 5.41 GB OVA file and the local disk on my workstation has 244 GB free.
I then tried adding additional permissions (Users did not have Write) but it still threw the error. I noticed that the file properties page for the OVA showed it as blocked since it came from a different computer so I unblocked it, but again had no luck with the deploy...same error.
I assume that the path is written during the conversion of a VM at Hortonworks to an OVA (Export?) but I have no idea how, or even if I could change it. Or even if changing the path would help.
Has anyone else run into this issue and is there a work-around that you can provide?
Thanks is advance for any help,
Rick