How To Use Vmware Ovf Tool For Mac

How To Use Vmware Ovf Tool For Mac

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You can export a virtual machine from Fusion Pro to Open Virtualization Format (OVF). You can export both .ovf and .ova files.

Tools for VMware ESXi to use in ESXi. Fix bug on Mac OS to handle OVF Tool being in $PATH and resolve the install directory correctly.

Fusion Pro converts the virtual machine from VMware runtime (.vmx) format to OVF format.

OVF is a platform-independent, efficient, extensible, and open packaging and distribution format for virtual machines. OVF format provides a complete specification of the virtual machine, including the full list of required virtual disks and the required virtual hardware configuration. The virtual hardware configuration includes CPU, memory, networking, and storage. An administrator can quickly provision an OVF-formatted virtual machine with little or no intervention.

You can also use the standalone version of OVF Tool to convert a virtual machine that is in VMware runtime format to an OVF virtual machine. The standalone version of OVF Tool is installed in the Fusion Pro installation directory under Contents/Library/VMware OVF Tool . See the OVF Tool User Guide documentation on the VMware Web site for information about using OVF Tool.

  • Verify that the virtual machine is not encrypted. You cannot export an encrypted virtual machine to OVF format.

  • Verify that the virtual machine is powered off.

Procedure

  1. Select the virtual machine and select File > Export to OVF.
  2. Enter a name for the OVF file and specify a directory in which to save it.
  3. Specify whether to export the virtual machine as an OVF, a folder with separate files, or as an OVA, a single-file archive.
  4. Click Export to start the OVF export process.

    The export process can take several minutes. A status bar indicates the progress of the export process.

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Version 1.1.0

Tools for VMware ESXi to use in ESXi

The tools included in the VMtools suite are:

  • ovf-export 1.1.0 - export/backup one or more virtual machines to OVF format
  • ovf-deploy 1.1.0 - deploy/restore a virtual machine from OVF template
  • rsync-static 3.1.3 - a pre-build static rsync version (see usage in https://rsync.samba.org/)

Table of contents

Installation on ESXi server

Install vmtools

  1. Get the files on a Linux OS (eg. Ubuntu):
  1. Copy the vmtools to ESXi (ssh must be enabled in ESXi):

Install VMware ovftool (required)

(ovftool-4.2.0 is included in vmtools)

VMware ovftool is free.

  1. Download the Linux version to install in ESXi from VMware site. For ESXi 5.5 get the 'VMware OVF Tool for Linux 64-bit' v4.2.0 VMware OVF Tool for Linux 64-bit otherwise you may have errors at runtime.
  2. Install the file on a Linux OS (eg. Ubuntu):
  1. Copy VMware ovftool to ESXi (ssh must be enabled in ESXi):
  1. In ESXi, change ovftool shebang from 'bash' to 'sh':

Install 'rsync' (optional)

  1. Get rsync

This command lines must be execute from a linux console and NOT in ESXi!

  1. Set cron for the next boot

The following commands must be run from ESXi shell.

Insert command lines in local.sh:

How to backup & restore VMs

The tools use VMware OVF Tool to export and deploy virtual machines.

Features:

  • Schedule an export for one are more VMs
  • Restore a VM from backup OVF
  • Email a report
  • Test functionality with the --test-mode=true parameter

Advice: Set the path to a nfs datastore to have an separate storage

'ovf-export' usage

The following commands must be run from ESXi shell.

If --user parameter is undefined then it is set as root.

Important The process shutdown each VM before export and restart it if it was powered off

  • Simple usage:

  • Schedule a backup job:

    1 - Create a job file (see example in jobs/job_export_example)

    jobs/job1:

    2 - Add cron task:

    Example: for every first saturday of month at 11:00 PM

    Standard output is redirected to a temp file in /tmp

'ovf-deploy' usage

The following commands must be run from ESXi shell.

If --user parameter is undefined then it is set as root.

If --datastore parameter is undefined then it is set as datastore1.

Ovftool

Important The process do not powered on VM when it ended

  • Create VM from OVF file (see example in jobs/job_deploy_example):

    Here the VM name is 'myvm' and the destination datastore is 'datastore1'

License

  • GPL-2.0
  • Copyright (C) 2018 Noël MARTINON
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