Exporting to an OVF template
A virtual machine is highly portable. This moved a notch higher with the coming together of key vendors in standardizing the virtual machine format. The standardization effort lead to Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and the outcome of this is the Open Virtualization Format (OVF).
How to do it...
In the following recipe, we will demonstrate exporting a Virtual Machine to OVF template for portability across a supported virtualization platform:
- Right-click on a VM and navigate to
Template |Export to OVF Template...:
- Provide additional details required—
Name,Annotationand leave theAdvancedoption unchecked:
- Confirm from the
Recent Taskspane that the task is completed.
How it works...
In the backend, the virtual machine is copied and converted into an OVF format that conforms to the format prescribed and agreed upon by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).
While the advanced option allows for additional configuration settings to be incorporated, it drastically...
