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3 Proceed through the Deploy OVF Template wizard, using the following settings.
a For the VM folder, select Workloads, Templates, or another folder that you have write
permissions on.
b For the compute resource, select Compute-ResourcePool.
c For the datastore, select workloadDatastore.
4 On the Select networks page, enter an IP address in the IP address field.
The IP Allocation Settings field is populated based on the OVF descriptor file. If the imported OVF
specifies only DHCP, IP Allocation Settings shows only DHCP. If the OVF specifies both static IP
and DHCP, IP Allocation Settings shows both.
Export an OVF Template
An OVF template captures the state of a virtual machine or vApp into a self-contained package. The disk
files are stored in a compressed, sparse format.
Required privilege: vApp.Export
Prerequisites
Power off the virtual machine or vApp.
Procedure
1 From the Actions menu in the vSphere Web Client, navigate to a virtual machine or vApp and select
Template > Export OVF Template.
2 In the Name field, type the name of the template.
For example, type MyVm.
Note When you export an OVF template with a name that contains asterisk (*) characters, those
characters turn into underscore (_) characters.
3 (Optional) In the Annotation field, type a description.
4 Select the Enable advanced options checkbox if you want to include additional information or
configurations in the exported template. The advanced settings include information about the BIOS
UUID, MAC addresses, boot order, PCI Slot numbers, and configuration settings used by other
applications.
These options limit portability.
5 Click OK.
6 You are prompted to save each file associated with the template (.ovf, .vmdk, .mf).
Note If you are using the Internet Explorer browser to export and OVF template, new tabs open in
the browser for each file of the OVF template. For each new tab, you are prompted to accept a
security certificate. Accept each security certificate, before saving each file.
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