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OVF and OVA deployment on vSphere

Download ovf tool from here.

Install it and add it to your Path variable.

make image from vsphere.

ovftool.exe -tt=OVF vi://user:password@vm01.hviidnet.com/MachineName c:\TemplateName.ovf
ovftool.exe -tt=OVA vi://user:password@vm01.hviidnet.com/MachineName c:\TemplateName.ova

Provision image:

ovftool.exe -nw="Network label ID" --diskMode=thin --name="New Virtual Machine Name" --powerOn --datastore="datastore1" c:\TemplateName.ovf vi://user:password@vm01.hviidnet.com

And you're done.

You can also script this if need be.

Documentation can be found here.

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