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