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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook Practical recipes to deploy, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 6.7 components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789953008
Length 570 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere 3. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches 4. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches 5. Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment 6. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores 7. SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage 8. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 9. Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment 10. Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles 11. Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder 12. Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts 13. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 14. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager 15. Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates 16. Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exporting a Virtual Machine

A virtual machine can be packaged for transport. vSphere provides a method to do so by exporting a virtual machine in an open virtual machine format (OVF), which is an open standard that was developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) with cooperation from VMware, Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, and other companies.

Getting ready

To be able to export a virtual machine to OVF, it needs to be in a Powered Off state. Starting with vSphere 6.5.x and 6.7, you can no longer export VMs to OVA using the web/HTML5 clients.

You can convert an OVF package into OVA format using the VMware OVF tool (https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/).
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