Issue installing OVA on vsphere essentials

[bhundven]

On the third step to choose the cluster/datacenter/host to use for photon-controller, it crashes with the attached OVA error. I'm not sure if this is a setup issue or really an issue with the OVA.

ESXi: 6.5.0/5310538
VCSA: 6.5.0/5705665

[mylesagray]

Same here, VCSA 6.5.0/5705665 and ESXi 6.5.0/5310538.

Have tried deploying to Resource Pool, Cluster and directly to a host. From what I can see PIIX4 is a PCI to IDE controller?

[It4lik]

Hi,
Did you read the doc ?
Don't know if it's related to your error but your ESXi hosts should NOT be managed by any VCSA.
And you should have your ESXi running with a specific patch : ESXi650-201701001 (build number 4887370).
Both of these informations are in the Assumptions section of the doc

[bhundven]

@It4lik If I have to run a specific patch of esxi 6.5.0, and I cannot reuse the existing infrastructure I already use, then it makes little sense to use this project. This has been an absolute waste of time.

[It4lik]

@bhundven yes, I understand. I think the whole point of Photon Controller is to dedicate some hardware to it, and that means dedicate hardware to cloud-native apps. This allows you to have a
scale-out IaaS platform dedicated to cloud-native apps. Some applications are natively packaged (and so are Kubernetes or Harbor at the moment, for example). You can give direct access to any of your "clients" : admins, devs, etc, in a isolated tenant with resources allocated to this tenant. This promotes autonomy, speed and flexibility.
I think that if you want to keep you current infrastructure, you should get interested in VIC project (especially VIC engine which make container hosts (VCH) first-class citizen in vSphere).