# Error deploying OVA "The provided manifest file is invalid" **URL:** \ **Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\ **Created:** [July 19, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785 "2017-07-19T16:02:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WhiteBear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/848f3c/32.png) [@WhiteBear](https://community.graylog.org/u/WhiteBear)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785/1 "2017-07-19T16:02:32Z")
Hi all, has anyone encountered “The provided manifest file is invalid: Invalid OVF manifest entry:” during deploying ova with vmware 6.5? I’ve tried to download again file, download another version or correct manifest using ovftool but no results Any ideas? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![harryw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/977dab/32.png) [@harryw](https://community.graylog.org/u/harryw)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785/2 "2017-07-19T23:52:18Z")
This is now ‘normal’ when connecting to Vmware Virtual Center with the web client (both flash and html5). Use the ‘old’ thick client to connect to one of the ESXi machines in the VMware cluster as root. Go to Home -\> Inventory Use the menu option File -\> Deploy OVF template … After deployment the machine will appear in the vCenter inventory as normal. Regards, Harry Werkman ---
**Author:** ![WhiteBear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/848f3c/32.png) [@WhiteBear](https://community.graylog.org/u/WhiteBear)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 7:20am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785/3 "2017-07-20T07:20:02Z")
Thanks a lot, it works! ---
**Author:** ![martial92](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/martial92/32/631_2.png) [@martial92](https://community.graylog.org/u/martial92)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785/4 "2017-07-27T11:36:37Z")
Hello, How you can use the old vsphere client with wmware 6.5? Only the webclient works for this version non? regards, Matthieu ---
**Author:** ![WhiteBear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/848f3c/32.png) [@WhiteBear](https://community.graylog.org/u/WhiteBear)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785/5 "2017-07-27T11:51:42Z")
You can connect directly to host using the client Bye ---
**Author:** ![martial92](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/martial92/32/631_2.png) [@martial92](https://community.graylog.org/u/martial92)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785/6 "2017-07-27T12:05:25Z")
oh ok good news, the flash client is awful and it miss some features, like choose files (only url) in ovf deployment in HTML5 client ---
**Author:** ![WhiteBear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/848f3c/32.png) [@WhiteBear](https://community.graylog.org/u/WhiteBear)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785/7 "2017-07-27T12:18:30Z")
You can connect to [https://yourhost/ui](https://yourhost/ui) and use html5 client for that specific host to upload ovf file from file; but I agree with you, there are a lot of limitations, we all want old vsphere client for 6.5 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/error-deploying-ova-the-provided-manifest-file-is-invalid/1785/8 "2017-08-10T12:18:36Z")
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