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Free Java GUI to Deploy VMs onto vSphere of All Versions – A Solid and Fast Alternative to vSphere Web Client and ovftool

May 8th, 2017 1 comment

Recently we got quite a few complaints about installing vSearch appliance OVA onto vSphere 6.5 using the vSphere Web Client. It does not work. As a quick workaround, we told customers to try the VMware ovftool command line. While it works mostly, we still got questions and issues on the usage. For one thing, it’s not always straight-forward and easy to get the parameters right.  Read more...

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VMware ovftool as Development Tool: Good and Bad Parts

October 30th, 2015 No comments

If you want to export a virtual appliance for internal deployment, it’s quite easy. The vSphere Web Client or ovftool command line can take care of this easily. But it’s a different story to build a virtual appliance based software product, which should not only make it work, but also include product information.

Here are some information I learned and decisions I made from packaging an OVF product recently. Hope it would be useful for you. You can also check another post on how to compact the virtual disk for smallest OVA or VMDK.  Read more...

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