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  • In this example the VMware vCenter 6.5 install has created:

  • VMware ovftool option that should be determined appropriate to this use case for this OVA import:
    • -ds="datastore_name-number"
      • Required if the selected Datacenter has more than one datastore
    • -nw="network_name-number"
      • Required if the selected Datacenter has more than one network 
    • --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

    • -ds="datastore_name-number"
      • Required if the selected Datacenter has more than one datastore
    • -nw="network_name-number"
      • Required if the selected Datacenter has more than one network

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

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