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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Deploying Open Virtual Format (OVF) and Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) templates

Virtual machines can be exported in OVF and OVA formats and deployed in the same or different environments. OVA and OVF are compressed file packages that enable faster deployment and may contain more than one VM. From vSphere 6.5, the installation of the CIP is no longer required to import and export OVF or OVA templates.

The procedure to deploy a VM from an OVF or OVA file is similar to deployment from a template:

  1. From the vSphere Web Client, right-click a valid inventory object (host, datacenter, cluster, or resource pool) and select the Actions | Deploy OVF Template option.
  2. Click the Choose Files button to specify the .ovf file to use, or you can deploy the ...
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