Hello All,
Can anybody please help me with the VMware OVF Tool command line utility ?
It is supposed to allow you to import and export Virtual Machines containers (VMX files).
How do we specify the path to the .VMX we want to export from an ESXi server ?
The command line option <source locator> asks for a "vSphere locator identifying a virtual machine or vApp on vCenter, ESXi, or VMware Server" but I just can't make the application recognize any thing I try.
For example, on the following command line option:
> ovftool vi://username:pass@my_host/my_datacenter/vm/my_vm_folder/my_vm_name
What does "my_datacenter" is supposed to mean ? Where do I find the name of my vSphere ESXi server ?
I've installed the OVT Tool at the vSphere server itself. The binary is working well at Linux ESXi shell. I just don't understand how to point it to the specific file I want to export at the datastore.
[root@localhost:~] uname -a
VMkernel localhost 6.0.0 #1 SMP Release build-3620759 Mar 3 2016 18:41:52 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 ESXi
[root@localhost:~] ls -al vmfs/volumes/datastore1/cancao-cead/
total 174242840
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2520 Nov 21 11:14 .
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 2240 Oct 26 19:56 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 17179869184 Nov 21 11:14 cancao-cead-ab4b36ea.vswp
-rw------- 1 root root 161061273600 Nov 22 18:44 cancao-cead-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 8684 Nov 22 18:37 cancao-cead.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 475 Nov 21 11:14 cancao-cead.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 28 2016 cancao-cead.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2740 Nov 21 11:14 cancao-cead.vmx
The file I'm trying to reach from the OVF Tool command line is last one:cancao-cead.vmx
How can I make OVF Tool command to find that file ?