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As Prism Element does not allow native OVA import and deployment, you will need to extract the files from the OVA first. The Unarchiver should do the trick on macOS and equivalent applications to do similar on Windows.
To extract VMDK files from an OVA file on a Linux system, you can use the tar command. As an OVA file is essentially a tar archive.
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This will extract all the contents of the OVA file in the current working directory. You should see the VMDK files along with any other files contained within the OVA.
Uploading the VMDK files to Prism Element
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Once powered on, use our provided credentials to login. You can find this in the Install instructions on our website.
Tip: Once authenticated, our appliance ships with a Message of the Day (MOTD) which will provide you with the virtual machine's IP address, used to access the NMIS Suite Graphical User Interface (GUI). You can also find this by typing "ip a" into the console of the virtual machine.