topic Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File in Expedition Discussions

Expedition VMWare OVF File

Brad.Herbert — Tue, 29 May 2018 14:42:05 GMT

Anyone know if they've build an OVF file type for the Expedition Tool like has been done with the other Migration Tools?

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

alestevez — Tue, 29 May 2018 15:25:48 GMT

Not yet, we will but if you have the need please use VMWare CONVERTER https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/6_1_1 for instance...

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

Tim_Grossner — Tue, 29 May 2018 20:40:32 GMT

I am getting the following when trying to re-use the existing VMDK files from the package in a new VM:

Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module Disk power on failed.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/568c3db4-ed627920-2a9e-5cb901942748/ExpeditionVM/Virtual Disk.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
The system cannot find the file specified
VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/568c3db4-ed627920-2a9e-5cb901942748/ExpeditionVM/Virtual Disk.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

alestevez — Wed, 30 May 2018 07:29:26 GMT

Have you converted to ESXi first? Using VMWare Converter? Or just moved the files provided to ESXi and tryied to use them? that dont gonna work... you have to convert it....

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

Tim_Grossner — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:46:35 GMT

I hadnt, but good tip. I have it running now, in the lab.

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

Brad.Herbert — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:10:30 GMT

We have it converted to OVF, but does anyone know the default username/password?

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

Tim_Grossner — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:18:26 GMT

Default credentials
Gui: admin/paloalto
Console: expedition/paloalto

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

Brad.Herbert — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:24:39 GMT

Did you find a Document on Expedition? All I've been able to locate is the DataSheet...

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

Tim_Grossner — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:48:54 GMT

not for the passwords, no, they were in another post on here.

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

alestevez — Thu, 31 May 2018 07:40:46 GMT

Here is the documentation and the passwords are inside of course, there is a hardening guide as well

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Expedition-Articles/Expedition-Documentation/ta-p/215619

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

LCMember1978 — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:43:39 GMT

Thanks for the info. I was able to finally get it working on Oracle Virtual box in a virtual machine on my desktop pc. For now, I'll run with that, but I'll look into the converter if I need a more powerful server.

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

rds-r2d2 — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:16:03 GMT

Hi, I have converted the VM using VMWare converter but it's still will not work. When I log in I just get the an error saying Remote Exception. No more info than that.

Any ideas?

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

DrooMurray — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:53:50 GMT

I can confirm I have also seen this on a VM converted over to Hyper-V.

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

alestevez — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:57:43 GMT

To fix that error, you have to upgrade to a newer version from the CLI or go to SETTINGS -> MLearning and in the ML SERVER textbox put the IP address from your Expedition and click on SAVE. Then refresh browser

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

rds-r2d2 — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:43:05 GMT

Thanks that worked updating the ML Server Address! As a matter of interest is the upgrade command from the cli different to the beta one? - sudo apt-get install expedition-beta

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

dkeeber — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:37:06 GMT

I know this is dated now but I wanted to add my 2-cents on this so that maybe it can be of help to others.

I had the expedition working great in my Macbook using fusion. That deployment was easy becuase the download came as a .vmarevm file ready to launch. I opened it up in fusion and made sure it booted and worked as designed. Then I shut it down and went to the Fusion Menu - File and selected export to ovf option. Then when in the dialog choose to create a single OVA file and let it do its thing... be patient it takes a bit. I'm sure the same thing is possible from vmware workstation.

PS NOTE: my export was a version VM12 and my vSphere is only 6.0 so at first it failed. I had to go back into fusion, modify the compatibility to version 11, then re export. Then it imported fine.

After that I opened the vsphere web-client and imported it just as any other ova. Worked like a champ.

Regards, I hope it helps.

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

dbrenipc — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:51:14 GMT

Hello - is the esxi file available? I'm unable to locate it.

thanks,

Don

Re: Expedition VMWare OVF File

dgildelaig — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:10:33 GMT

If you mean the official VM images,t hey are in the main page of this Live site.

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Expedition-Migration-Tool/ct-p/migration_tool

With the links to:

Get the Legacy Expedition VM

and

Get the Legacy Expedition OVA