VMware ESXi OVA Install (and VMDK alternative) Failure

Installation
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I am attempting to install HA for the first time utilising the provided OVA to deploy into a VMware lab running v8.

The OVA fails a security check, with the VMware platform refusing to deploy the OVA.

I am following the guide here to obtain the OVA.

As an alternative, I downloaded and imported the vmdk, created a virtual machine and mounted the disk, it does not boot.

As per this article, I’ve booted into Ubuntu live and supplied the below command to alter the EFI config, yet the system does not find a boot loader.

efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda1 --part 1 --label “HAOS” \ –loader ‘\EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi’

I’ve not once come across an OVA that has failed a security check, and a supplied disk image not booting out of the box is unusual.

Can anyone here offer up some wisdom?

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For anyone finding this post requiring an OVA for ESXi or vSphere, I have taken the 14.2 OVA linked in the installation article, performed an import into Workstation, exported and imported into vSphere, adjusted the config to make it native and supported for v6.5 and above, exported it again, and converted it to OVA.

Uploaded here for anyone that needs a quick deployment into VMware.