F5 BIGIP VE is failing to install on VMWARE ESXi 6.5

Did you try with vSphere web client?

I have also issues when using vSphere web client to deploy OVA.

to deploy OVA, I use sphere client (version from 5.5 is working) or ovftool (Mac OS X path):

/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool -dm=thin -ds=MyDataStore -n="MyF5" --net:External=F5-lab-external --net:HA=F5-lab-HA  --net:Internal="F5-lab-internal" --net:Management="F5-lab-Mgmt" /F5/12.1.2/BIGIP-12.1.2.1.0.271.ALL-scsi.ova vi://root@1.2.3.4

for me it worked on the web gui client, try with both flash and hmtl5 and different browsers. it is kinda sad vmware made such a mess, but in the end it did work.

I get the same "Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed: Capacity of uploaded disk is larger than requested" on ESXi 6.5 Update 1 (Build 5969303) when trying to load BIGIP-11.6.3.0.0.3.ALL-scsi.ova.

The first 20GB vmdk file appears to load but the second 129GB Thin or Thick vmdk fails and triggers the error (I have 392GB of free VMFS space available). Failed using the following:

Chromium 63 on Ubuntu 17.10 / Firefox 58 on Ubuntu 17.10 / Firefox 58 on Windows 10

Loading the ova with ovftool works fine (Thanks everyone for pointing me in that direction).

From what I have read, the Flash client is only available in vCenter 6.5. Individual ESXi 6.5 servers only have the HTML5 client.

I have a single ESXi 6.5 server for my home lab, so I am using the HTML5 client.

I had to modify the examples above to get it to work. Here is a generic example for OSX

cd /Applications/VMware OVF Tool/

./ovftool --acceptAllEulas --noSSLVerify --skipManifestCheck -ds="datastore" --diskMode=thin -n="BIGIP-13.1.0.2.0.0.6" --net:External="VM Network" --net:Internal="VM Network" --net:HA="VM Network" --net:Management="VM Network" --powerOn BIGIP-13.1.0.2.0.0.6.ALL-scsi.ova vi://root:"PASSWORD"@SERVER IP

FYI: The documentation for the OVFTool - https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/ovf420/ovftool-420-userguide.pdf

My example from Windows to vSphere 5.5:

"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe" --acceptAllEulas -st=ova -dm=thin -ds="NetApp_VM-Storage" -vf="folder" -n="BIGIP-13.0.0-0.0.ALL-scsi" --net:External="VLAN 1 External" --net:HA="VLAN 2 HA" --net:Internal="VLAN 3 Internal" --net:Management="VLAN 4 Mgmt" "C:\Users\bob\Downloads\BIGIP-13.0.0-0.0.ALL-scsi.ova" "vi://bob@//host/"

This is not nescessarily an error. I have seen it on various machines. Not just F5 virtual machines. Just pay attention wether or not the machine is actually deployed.