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Remember to set the Virtual Machine name you like, the datastore you want, and point it at the server you want to deploy to.

2. Importing the OVA file to an ESXi Datacenter via vCenter using ovftool

  • Numerous attempts were made to import this OVA using the vSphere HTML5 Client, with Chrome, Chromium and Firefox as browser:
    • Every attempt timed out.
  • We have yet to experience a failed import of this OVF using ovftool:
    • For this reason ovftool is recommended for importing OVAs' via vCenter

You can import the OVA file into an ESXi Datacenter via vCenter using ovftool, from the PC or server you run ovftool. Run commands like this:

  • In this example the vCenter 6.5 install has created:

  • ovftool option that should be determined appropriate to this use case for this OVA import:
    • --diskMode

      Specify the disk format. You can specify the following formats:

      • monolithicSparse 

      • monolithicFlat

      • twoGbMaxExtentSparse

      • twoGbMaxExtentFlat

      • seSparse (vSphere target)

      • eagerZeroedThick (vSphere target)

      • thin(vSphere target)

      • thick (vSphere target)

      • sparse

      • flat

Determine the Datacenter name:
ovftool vi://administrator@vsphere.localdomain:Vagrant1\!@photon-machine
Error: Found wrong kind of object (Folder). Possible completions are:
Datacenter1/

Determine the Datacenter available options:
ovftool vi://administrator@vsphere.localdomain:Vagrant1\!@photon-machine/Datacenter1/
Error: Found wrong kind of object (Datacenter). Possible completions are:
vm/
host/

Determine the Datacenter host IP or FQDN:
ovftool vi://administrator@vsphere.localdomain:Vagrant1\!@photon-machine/Datacenter1/host/
Error: Found wrong kind of object (Folder). Possible completions are:
172.16.37.128/

Import Opmantek-20200708-VM9-Centos7.2003-3-64bit.ova which is in the current directory, in this example using vSphere option --diskMode=thin:
ls -la
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 903864320 Jul 29 13:09 Opmantek-20200708-VM9-Centos7.2003-3-64bit.ova

ovftool --acceptAllEulas --diskMode=thin Opmantek-20200708-VM9-Centos7.2003-3-64bit.ova vi://administrator@vsphere.localdomain:Vagrant1\!@photon-machine/Datacenter1/host/172.16.37.128
Opening OVA source: Opmantek-20200708-VM9-Centos7.2003-3-64bit.ova
Opening VI target: vi://administrator%40vsphere.localdomain@172.16.37.130:443/Datacenter1/host/172.16.37.128
Deploying to VI: vi://administrator%40vsphere.localdomain@172.16.37.130:443/Datacenter1/host/172.16.37.128
Transfer Completed
Warning:
- No supported manifest(sha1, sha256, sha512) entry found for: 'omk-vm9-centos7-disk001.vmdk'.
- No supported manifest(sha1, sha256, sha512) entry found for: 'omk-vm9-centos7-disk002.vmdk'.
- No manifest file found.
Completed successfully


3. Upgrade the Virtual machine hardware version (optional)

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