Export to OVA on VMWare vSphere ESXi & vCenter Server 6.5 - 6.6 - 6.7

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VMWare no longer allows you to export to .ova from the Web GUI. Here's is how I got around that.

To skip to the different methods use the following:
1:39 - vSphere Standalone Tool for ESXi Host *This only works on v 6.5*
3:10 - OVF Tool on vCenter Server Web Gui
4:51 - OVF Tool on vSphere ESXi Host Web GUI

Download Links:
VMware vSphere Client 6.0 Update 3

VMware Open Virtualization Format Tool 4.3.0

OVF Tool User’s Guide

Local path for OVF Tool:
C:\Program files\VMWare\VMWare OVF Tool\

OVF Tool Commands

vCenter Server:

example:

The breakdown:

vSphere ESXi Host:

For vSphere ESXi, the command is slightly different and does not include a datacenter name or the vm designator:
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This is very informative. Thanks for sharing.

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VMware vSphere Client 6.0 Update 3 link does not work

paulwhiteway