Some notes for future research: ovftool on ESXi
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/12
One of the things you cannot do easily is deploy ofv from an ESXi data store to an ESXi data store using ESXi 6.7 or higher using the web client.
Some notes that might help me further on this (for now I have worked around doing this by deploying from a Windows machine)
- [WayBack] GitHub – noelmartinon/vmtools: Tools for VMware ESXi to use in ESXi
- [WayBack] Open Virtualization Format Tool (ovftool) – VMware {code}
- [WayBack] ovftool-430-userguide.pdf
- [WayBack] ovftool-432-userguide.pdf
- [WayBack] VMware OVF Tool Release Notes; Build number: 7948156; Version 4.3.0; Last document update: 19 APR 2018
- [WayBack] VMware OVF Tool Release Notes; Build number: 10104578; Version 4.3.0 Update 1; Last document update: 18 JAN 2019 Check for additions and updates to these release notes.
- [WayBack] VMware OVF Tool Release Notes; Build number: 12320924; Version 4.3.0 Update 2; Last document update: 11 APR 2019
- [WayBack] Import ova from esxi shell to localhost |VMware Communities
- [WayBack] OVFTool installation on ESXi · GitHub
- [WayBack] How to Deploy an OVF/OVA in the ESXi Shell
- [WayBack] Quick Tip – Import OVF/OVA as VM Template using OVFTool 4.3 Update 1
- [Archive.is] How to export VM in OVA format from ESXi 6.7 : vmware
- [Archive.is] Deploy OVF in multiple datastores? : vmware
The ESXi 6.5 non-web client could do this easily [WayBack] ESXi 6.5 Deploy ova from Datastore |VMware Communities
–jeroen
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