How to resolve failed to deploy OVA / OVF issue (postNFCData failed)

During the deployment of OVA or OVF appliance I have faced an issue which is:

Also; the upload process has failed with the listed issue:
This issue occurs when an incorrect ovf capacity size is specified in the OVF file that is being deployed.
To resolve this issue, I have increased the disk size in the OVF file to match the actual size of the vmdk in the OVF, to increase disk size in OVF file follow listed steps.
  • Navigate to the location of the OVF file, also if you have OVA file just unzip OVA file and start to edit the OVF file after that.
  • Open the OVF file using the text editor, and locate these tags to check the OVF disk actual size.
    <DiskSection> </DiskSection>

Before correction ovf capacity

After correction ovf capacity
Note: Size format is in MB.

  • Save and close the file.
  • Deploy the OVF again.

Thanks.

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