Download ovf tool

It will waste a lot of effort if you are re-doing the things from scratch in the upper environments such as stage or production. Environments have direct connectivity, we can clone the virtual machines directly between vCenter Server using Cross-vCenter VMotion.

Cross-vCenter vMotion feature requires enterprise plus license. Installation is quite simple as similar to all other windows installers. I am not going to explain each step of the OVF tool installation. By default, below is the installation directory. For example, enter the vCenter URL and credentials. It will suggest possible completions, which are the objects under the path you have entered. There is no icon or program logo on your desktop for the OVF Tool, so to launch it, you must use the command prompt.

Go to the installation folder and run:. There are a number of help commands, which are a good source of information:. Make sure you are in the correct directory, that is, the directory containing the file you want to import. This URL is different depending on the region in which your environment is located. Make sure you are in the correct directory, that is, the directory containing the ISO file you want to import.

When the ovftool command has finished, the source and target locations are listed and then you're prompted for your username and password. When you are authenticated, the upload process is initiated.

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