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You can export virtual machines, virtual appliances, and vApps in Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF).
You can then deploy the OVF template in the same environment or in a different environment.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Deploy an OVF Template in the vSphere Client,” on page 133
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“Export an OVF Template,” on page 134
Deploy an OVF Template in the vSphere Client
When you connect directly to a host with the vSphere Client, you can deploy an OVF template from a local
file system accessible to the vSphere Client machine, or from a web URL.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client, select File > Deploy OVF Template.
The Deploy OVF Template wizard appears.
2 Specify the source location and click Next.
Option Action
Deploy from File
Browse your file system for an OVF or OVA template.
Deploy from URL
Specify a URL to an OVF template located on the internet. Example:
http://vmware.com/VMTN/appliance.ovf
3 View the OVF Template Details page and click Next.
4 If license agreements are packaged with the OVF template, the End User License Agreement page
appears. Agree to accept the terms of the licenses and click Next.
5 Select the deployment configuration from the drop-down menu and click Next.
The option selected typically controls the memory settings, number of CPUs and reservations, and
application-level configuration parameters.
NOTE This page appears only if the OVF template contains deployment options.
6 Select a datastore to store the deployed OVF template, and click Next.
Datastores are a unifying abstraction for storage locations such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI LUNs, or NAS
volumes. On this page, you select from datastores already configured on the destination cluster or host.
The virtual machine configuration file and virtual disk files are stored on the datastore. Select a
datastore large enough to accommodate the virtual machine and all of its virtual disk files.
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