topic Re: Ontap 9 OVF from website fails to deploy on VMWare Workstation in ONTAP Discussions

Ontap 9 OVF from website fails to deploy on VMWare Workstation

gargaditya — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:15:57 GMT

Problem Summary: Ontap 9 OVF from website fails to deploy on VMWare Workstation

1.Please find attached the screenshots showing error when the ovf fails to meet criteria

2.Tried doing the following:

a.manually extracting the ovf and further extracting the 4 disk files

b.Creating a new VM and attaching these as IDE hard disks

c.Not missing a floppy/serial port as these cause no boot up or hung boot up

d.Still face the attached errors:

-You do not have write access to a partition.

-g_vfs_done error=5

Info-only the 8.x series which are in compressed tgz format seem to work

Sahana — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:38:33 GMT

Hi,

Please refer Known issues on page 18 of https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_get_file/ECMLP2749941 Ontap Select 9.2 Release Notes Using ONTAP Select Deploy 2.5

gargaditya — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:01:08 GMT

Hello Sahana,

Thanks for your inputs,however his link seems to be blocked :

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Sahana — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:39:33 GMT

Hi,

The URL had gotten modified while pasting. Have fixed it now: https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_get_file/ECMLP2749941