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Virtual appliance will be normally available on OVA format which is bundle of OVF(open virtualization format) and VMDK files. If you directly deploy OVA files from vCenter Client , it will fail 99% of times. So better you need to extract the OVA files as OVF or need to convert as VMX format to deploy the appliances on vCenter client or Vmware web-client .VMware offer free OVF converter tool which will help you to extract a OVA format files and to convert as VMX files.
Here you can download the VMware Open virtualization format tool and it’t free. Just sign up required on VMware.
1.Once you have downloaded the VMware OVF tool, just install it .(Its typical Windows exe. )
2.After the VMware OVF tool installation, open the command prompt. start – > Run – > cmd
3.Navigate to the VMware OVF installed location.
4.For your information , I have kept the OVA file on the below location.
5.Go the command line and execute the below command to extract OVA file as OVF and VMDK files. (OVA to OVF conversion)
The extraction failed because the OVA file is not downloaded properly.That’s why ,the conversion stopped at 67%.
The below one shows the successful extraction of OVA file
You can also extract the ova file using tar command . (# tar -xvf VOVA_HAVANA.ova). After the extraction of OVA files,you will get below files.
- OVF MF and VMDK files
You can convert the OVF file as VMX using the similar command.
We have successfully converted OVA files to OVF and OVF to VMX .
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You can deploy the OVA file on vSphere 5.x for use during development or for production environments.
Download the OVA file from the VMware download site.
Different OVA files exist for vFabric Postgres Standard Edition and vFabric Postgres Standard Edition for Data Director.
Procedure
2 | Select an inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine, such as a datacenter, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host. | ||||||||||||
Select Actions > All vCenter Actions > Deploy OVF Template. | |||||||||||||
4 | If prompted, download the client plug-in. You have to close all browsers to download the plug-in. | ||||||||||||
Specify the source location and click Next. | |||||||||||||
6 | If prompted, accept the license agreement and wait for the deployment process to complete. | ||||||||||||
(Optional) Change the resource allocation for the virtual appliance. The default configuration is as follows.
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8 | Set the network configuration if you want to set a static IP address, or leave the settings blank to have the virtual machine use DHCP. You can use the network configuration script /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net to change the IP address of the virtual appliance. | ||||||||||||
Power on the new virtual machine and log in as root, using the random password that is displayed. | |||||||||||||
10 | Change the password with the /opt/aurora/sbin/setpassword command. The command sets the password for the user with user name root and the user with user name postgres on both system and the database. |