Recently, I needed to deploy VCSA 8.0.0 in a VMware Cloud Director environment, which initially ended up with the following cryptic error message when trying to import the VCSA OVA file from the installer ISO into a VCD vApp template:
Error: Validation failed for the OVF file you provided: Fatal: Line/char 578/96: cvc-minInclusive-valid: Value ‘-100’ is not facet-valid with respect to minInclusive ‘0’ for type ‘unsignedShort’.
Although not officially supported by VMware, I came up with the following solution: Replace the mentioned value with a valid one in the OVF file as an unsigned short data type cannot have a negative value, i.e. it must be in the range of 0 to 65535. Thus, we’ll simply remove the sign from the value and store it as “100” in the OVF file.