Hi,
I am relatively new to the VMMark suite, but I want to use it to burn in a new Blade Chassis we just deployed. It appears that all the OVF templates that were made available with VMMark 2.5 were packaged as VM Hardware version 9.
- All the guides I have read on this state that the product will work with vSphere 5.0 and hosts as old as 4.1
- VMX-09 will only work on ESXi 5.1
- The error I get when deploying the OVF says the following
- The OVF package requires unsupported hardware
- Details: Line 31: Unsupported hardware family 'vmx-09'
I have read that you can open the OVF in a text editor, which I did, and replace VMX-09 with VMX-08
- When i did this, it lead to another set of errors
- Line 124: Unable to parse 'backing.exclusive' for attribute 'key' on element 'Config'.
- Line 85: Unable to parse 'use3dRenderer' for attribute 'key' on element 'Config'.
- Line 163: Unable to parse nestedHVEnabled for attribute key on element config
- Line 163: Unable to parse nestedHVEnabled for attribute key on element config
- So then I re-opened the ovf in a text editor and tried removing those lines thinking that they were there because they only applied to VMX-09 hardware
- Then, I tried to deploy the OVF again, and that time it gave me a CheckSum error
- I presume that was because the Hash value of the file changed from what was downloaded.
Is there a better way to Convert this back down to VMX-08 or a set of OVFs that can actually be deployed to ESXi 5.0?
- Is there a different version of VMMark that does ship with OVFs that will work in a vSphere 5.0/ ESXi 5.0 environment?