Hello everybody,
I been using ovftool to build virtual appliance and so far its pretty much stable.
We basically have 2 vms viz server and database which gets deployed through single ova.
Both the vms have separate vmdks and they are referenced inside ovf.
We have a requirement to selectively choose vms while deploying through vApp.
I have searched for the option to selectively choose vms and so far i couldn't find any option that provides a selecting option to choose either server or database.
Even, we are looking something for option of deploying 2 server and 3 database vms out of single ova.
I know we can have 5 vms deployed if I bundle 2 server vmds and 3 database vmdks and populate ovf with data .with corresponding property values.
But the ask is to have only 1 set of vmdks for server and database each and deploy multiple instances of these vms by selecting number of instances during deployment time.
I am also looking for an option to skip database and deploy only server through ova.
Appreciate your time for reading this discussion .
Thanks in advance.