Export and import vAPP directly from vCloud Director using OVFTool

OVFTool is a useful tool from VMWare, which allows users to directly import and export OVA/OVF files from vCloudOrg and perform other operations. The program runs from the command line.

The utility is available at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OVFTOOL440&productId=974 (registration on the VMWare website is required).

Last updated version 4.4 of 04.2020

To start using the utility you need to install it, then go to the folder with the installed program in the command line

cd C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool

Before working with the program, you should know the following data:

    1. vCloud URL

    2. vCloud Username and Password

    3. Org Name

    4. vDC Name

    5. vApp Name

Attention. VM/vApp must be switched off (stopped).

How to import to vCloud Director

Command syntax is simple enough ovftool.exe source target

ovftool -tt=vCloud c:\<LOCAL_FILEPATH>\<FILE_NAME>.ovf "vcloud://<ORG_USER>:<ORG_PASSWORD>@vcd.cloud4y.ru/cloud?org=<ORG_NAME>&vdc=<VDC_NAME>&vapp=<VAPP_NAME>".

<LOCAL_FILEPATH> absolute path to OVF image

<FILE_NAME> OVF file name

<ORG_USER> username for access to vOrg

<ORG_PASSWORD> user password

<ORG_NAME> your vCloud Org name

<VDC_NAME> your vCloud vDC name

<VAPP_NAME> desired vApp name where the image will be deployed

Import into catalogue

Instead of importing directly to vApp, you can upload OVF to a directory for later deployment.

ovftool -tt=vCloud c:\<LOCAL_FILEPATH>\<FILE_NAME>.ovf “vcloud://<ORG_USER>:<ORG_PASSWORD>@vcd.cloud4y.ru/cloud?org=<ORG_NAME>&vdc=<VDC_NAME>&vapp=<VAPP_NAME>&catalog=<CATALOG_NAME>”

<CATALOG_NAME> the full name of the directory where the image will be placed

 

How to export from vCloud Director

For exporting the VM command syntax will be as follows:

ovftool.exe  --parallelThreads=4 --X:progressSmoothing=10 --X:vCloudTimeout=60000 --X:vCloudKeepAliveTimeout=60000 --X:logFile=f:\test\log.txt --X:logLevel=verbose "vcloud://<ORG_USER>:<ORG_PASSWORD>@vcd.cloud4y.ru/cloud?org=<ORG_NAME>&vdc=<VDC_NAME>&vapp=<VAPP_NAME>"  c:\<LOCAL_FOLDER>\

<LOCAL_FOLDER> Specify path to folder. Inside it you will create a folder with the name vAPP

<ORG_USER> username for access to vOrg

<ORG_PASSWORD> user password

<ORG_NAME> your vCloud Org name

<VDC_NAME> your vCloud vDC name

<VAPP_NAME> Name of vApp to be downloaded  

Optionally you can add keys:

   1. for logging the process

           --X:logFile=C:\<LOG_FILE_PATH> - log file name

    --X:logLevel=verbose

2. To change the timeout, you can use the following options when exporting large files

    --X:progressSmoothing=10

     --X:vCloudTimeout=60000 (measured in sec. Default value 60 sec.)

     --X:vCloudKeepAliveTimeout=60000.

3. In the new version of OVFTool, you can specify the number of parallel OVF import/export ports. On large VMs this allows increasing the speed of the operation

     --parallelThreads=4 value should preferably be equal to the number of CPUs

 

You can read more about this option from William Lam https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/04/really-cool-updates-with-ovftool-4-4-and-support-for-vsphere-7.html.

The basic documentation of the OVFTool utility can be found at https://code.vmware.com/docs/11747/ovf-tool-user-s-guide.

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