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This article is based on a similar one at vSphere Java API home page. At that time, one of VMware community members sent me an email for samples of using OvfManager APIs. Then I went to office on a Saturday writing two samples, which have been validated by several folks as “working” samples.

The purpose of the samples are to illustrate the vSphere APIs. Let’s take a look at them one by one.

First, ExportOvfToLocal.java. This sample shows how to download either a VM or vApp to your local machine. The typical flow is:  Read more... (2438 words, estimated 9:45 mins reading time)

• Find the VM or vApp
• Call their exportVm() or exportVApp() methods and get HttpNfcLease
• Set lease time out
• Wait for HttpNfcLease until it’s ready
• From the HttpNfcLease.info property, find the all URLs from which you download the vmdk files
• Call OvfManager.createDescriptor() API to create the content of ovf and save it to a file along with downloaded vmdk files.
• Release the lease by calling httpNfcLeaseComplete() method