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If the OVF tool is installed on your system, run the following command: Note: The tar command must use the TAR format and comply with the USTAR (Uniform Standard Tape Archive) format as defined by the POSIX IEEE 1003.1 standards group. Run the commands in the exact order so the OVA is correctly built. ova-template-name.ova is the final OVA template. N refers to the number of disks the VM contains. Tar uvf ova-template-name.ova ovf-template-name- n.vmdk Tar uvf ova-template-name.ova ovf-template-name-1.vmdk Tar uvf ova-template-name.ova ovf-template-name.mf Tar cvf ova-template-name.ova ovf-template-name.ovf

Go to the new folder and create an OVA template using the tar command to combine the files:

Perform one of the following tasks to create an OVA template from an OVF template.Locate the downloaded OVF template files, and move them into an empty new folder.Use the vSphere Web Client to export the VM or vApp as OVF template to the local machine.

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Windows systems require installation of a TAR capable utility.

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The following procedure describes this process using the Linux an Mac commands. Workaround: Export the virtual machine as an OVF template, and then create an OVA template from the OVF template files. If want OVA,then you use OVFTool and youвЂ™ll get the same behavior as 6.5 (which had the export run locally) as mentioned in the vCenter 6.5 release notes: For small VMs, this may not be a problem but there are many customers who have extremely large VMs (several hundred GBs) and this could have a huge impact on VC. The issue with supporting OVA as I understand it was that it would require additional space on vCenter Server to actually store the contents where as today, it is directly streamed to the customer for download. In 6.5, CIP was removed and rather than relying on a client side tool to perform the export, this was now done natively within vCenter Server using the Content Library service which runs server side. This happened due to the removal of the Client Integration Plugin (CIP) which included a copy of OVFTool which ran locally on your desktop and was used to perform the export. Turns out the error description contained the solution all along (Not on purpose though -> see url).As per the vSphere 6.5 documentation cannot export OVA templates. ThatвЂ™s right, I was using the short name to access vCenter (which is in the SAN of my certificate by the way). I tried what the KB mentions but it did nothing.Д¬redits to Sasha_G. In the wizard, set the type of source to Other. If this does not resolve the problem, other possible solutions are shown in this KB article: 2147256.ДЄt this point I know this is not going to help because my vCenter certificate is issued by a CA and the root is trusted. To export an existing virtual machine: Shut down the virtual machine and close its tab in the Workstation interface. If you are using self-signed or custom certificates, open the URL below in a new browser tab and accept the certificate, then retry the operation. Typically this problem occurs due to certificates that the browser does not trust. The operation failed for an undetermined reason. The helpful kind that VMware loves so much: then copy the file to the same directory as the ovftool. In the flex client at least I would get a description. I tried to export in VMware 14, basically ExtraConfig is dropped at all. IвЂ™d been deploying this OVA on other vCenters before with no issue but whatever, I tried the flash (flex) client, you never know these daysвЂ¦

Tech Note: I find it a lot simpler to do this from PowerCLI now, see the article below VMware: Export a VM to OVA With. Transfer failed: The OVF descriptor is not available Import an OVF Template (Note: VMware call this Deploy an OVF Template) Note: There are tools for OVF templates for other VMware virtualisation products, this is just for vSphere / ESX. The failed task shows the following message: In the HTML5 client the deployment just fails with no error. You would wonder how hard can this be, weвЂ™ve been doing it for years and somehow I just now get the error described belowвЂ¦ I was trying to deploy an OVA on a VCSA 6.7 with no success. Quick post about a silly issue I encountered that I want to document here.

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