A problem occured while reading the OVA-FIle, Type Error - RHEL, Centos 9

Are you deploying vCenter from a Redhat workstation by any chance?

If so try installing the libnsl package via the command dnf install libnsl then then try deploying again!

vCenter Server 8.0 appliance deployment fails while performing vCenter server 8.0 deployment using a UI installer on the RHEL 9 operating system, the deployment wizard fails with an error message: A problem occurred while reading the OVA File: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined reading 'length'.

On the RHEL operating system, install the libnsl package using the command

dnf install libnsl.

Ensure to configure the required repositories prior to execution of the command. 

Source: https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/cs-cz/vmware-esxi-8.x/vmware_8.x_rn_pub/known-issues?guid=guid-ea80ce97-07db-402f-a99c-36109663f276&lang=en-us

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