Vsphere 6.7 OVA issues.

In the new release of VMWare's Vsphere which is currently a release candidate you may get many OVA errors.  In many collaboration OVA's there are dual purpose sections where the XML portion may include a comma.  Currently, Vsphere will report errors when importing them, you need to copy the section entirely, remove the comma and have both.

This section will create errors:

      <Item ovf:configuration="CUCM_10000,CUCM_2500_small_disk">
        <rasd:AllocationUnits>hertz * 10^6</rasd:AllocationUnits>
        <rasd:Description>Number of Virtual CPUs</rasd:Description>
        <rasd:ElementName>4 virtual CPU(s)</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:InstanceID>1</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Reservation>7200</rasd:Reservation>
        <rasd:ResourceType>3</rasd:ResourceType>
        <rasd:VirtualQuantity>4</rasd:VirtualQuantity>
      </Item>
 To fix:

      <Item ovf:configuration="CUCM_10000">
        <rasd:AllocationUnits>hertz * 10^6</rasd:AllocationUnits>
        <rasd:Description>Number of Virtual CPUs</rasd:Description>
        <rasd:ElementName>4 virtual CPU(s)</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:InstanceID>1</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Reservation>7200</rasd:Reservation>
        <rasd:ResourceType>3</rasd:ResourceType>
        <rasd:VirtualQuantity>4</rasd:VirtualQuantity>
      </Item>
      <Item ovf:configuration="CUCM_2500_small_disk">
        <rasd:AllocationUnits>byte * 2^20</rasd:AllocationUnits>
        <rasd:Description>Memory Size</rasd:Description>
        <rasd:ElementName>3072MB of memory</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:InstanceID>2</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Reservation>3072</rasd:Reservation>
        <rasd:ResourceType>4</rasd:ResourceType>
        <rasd:VirtualQuantity>3072</rasd:VirtualQuantity>
      </Item>

Now just do a sha1sum on the updated ovf, update the manifest and reimport it into your OVA.

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