Escaping backslashes (or other special characters) in the FTP locator
Using ovftool 3.0.1, I cannot figure out how to escape the backslash character when specifying the username and password in an FTP locator on the command line. $ ovftool...
View Articleovftool deploy failing with "Network connection was lost"
Hey, Is anybody aware of what network flows exist when deploying an ovf file using ovftool through a vCenter? Right now ovftool is continually erroring out with the following message: Transfer Failed...
View ArticleScripting ovftool
I need to write a script to remotely shotdown a guest VM, export it to .ova format an restart it.Is there any sample I can start from?Regardsmarius
View ArticleOVFTool - vmware tools ip assignment on esxi free hypervisor.
Hi. I ran into a problem when deploying an ova using ovftool with pre-installed vmware-tools. Once the appliance is booted up the IP address isn't dynamically assigned to it even though the appliance...
View ArticleUse OVFTool to Convert OVA File Without A Domain
OVFTool keeps failing when I try to convert an OVA image to vmdk, since I don't have a domain on our network, a la vi://hostname.domain. What should I do? It's a Mitel Linux Image.
View ArticleOVF ERROR
Hi, I am getting below error while depoying a OVF template. Please suggest. Failed to Deploy:Unable to access file: server1.vmdk.The process cannot access the file "fullpath of vmdkfile\server1.vmdk'...
View Articleovftool moref and ManagedObjectNotFound
Hi Guys, I'm trying to use the below command using ovftool and have not been successful ovftool vi://user:pass@localhost?moref=vim.vm.VirtualMachine:<VM GuestName>. every time I receive the...
View ArticleHow to upgrade hardwareversion
Hi i've an OVF virtual appliance with hardware version 4 how can i upgrade it to hardware version 7 and convert to OVA as well? it seems ovftools does not have the ability to upgrade to a higher...
View ArticleGetting Password string in ovf property
Hello,I been working on the setting properties in the ovf template and this is working fine so far.Basically, I add property in the product section under property tag and read its value during...
View ArticleHow to add addition Hard disk space for the created VM in ESXi server using...
Can anyone help me out on "how to add additional Hard Disk and Ethernet Adapter for VM created in an ESXi server using ovftool.exe commandline.
View ArticleDeploy OVF Template problems
Hi!I'm trying to to deploy a OVF/OVA file into my vCenter but I'm getting a error message, pls help me. "Line 61: No space left for device '5' on parent controller '4'." (Tested to deploy other...
View ArticleVMware datacenter optimization project
We are working on a project that analyzes datacenter utilization and decides how to optimize VMs. We just released our VMware data collector. The data collectors continuously gets utilization data from...
View ArticleValidations on OVF Properties
Hi, I am customizing an OVF template XML by adding OVF properties. I have a few questions related to validating the properties. 1) If a property doesn't succeed the validation test (say, it falls...
View ArticleOVF Bootstrap/Configuration Utility for Linux VM Guests
Hello all, I wanted to share an open source project, FVORGE, that we use in house to rapidly, and with repeatable consistency, deploy a Linux VM guest that will configure itself based on the set of OVF...
View ArticleCan not convert a VMX from vCenter server to a local vmx
I am trying to convent a vmx within vCenter server to a local vmx, i am trying with: ovftool.exe "vi://user:password@my_vCenterserver/may_datacenter?ds=[my_datastore] my_vm/my_vm.vmx" C:\ovfs\my_vm.vmx...
View ArticleQuery Compression on an OVF
Is it possible to query what compression was run against an OVF when it was created? What is the default compression level for ovftool?
View ArticlePassword validations in OVF XML
HiI am using a static OVF property of type 'password' in my virtual appliance.Though we have an option to validate the password length using MinLength/Maxlength, I am not sure how to do more...
View ArticleSelective VM deployment using ovf file
Hi Experts, We are trying to build an ova package which has multiple virtual machines (something like LAMP VM, AD VM )Can we have selective vm deployments? say user gets to select what he wants to...
View ArticleOptions to select vms when deploying virtual appliance with multiple vms
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...
View ArticleMigrate to another vCenter
Hi all, I have a "little" question. I have installed a new vCenter 5.5 in my farm and I would like to migrate all clusters/hosts to it. In my old vcenter there are a lot of vApps. How can migrate all...
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