Importing OVF File From the Internet in VirtualCenter - VirtuallyCrazy

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I'm sure many of you have seen the announcement of the SearchMyVM
from Vkernel. I was intrigued by the product, so I signed up to
download it. They mentioned a direct link to the OVF file, so I poked
around in Virtual Center and noticed the Virtual Appliance tab. I had
read about this function, but had no reason to actually use it in our
VMware environment at prior to now. Vkernel gave me a reason, so I
thought I would share the experience.

From this menu you can enter a url to directly download a OVF file from. In this example I used http://downloads.vkernel.com/downloads/vkernel/ovf/VK_Search_1.0_Beta/VK_Search_1.0_Beta.ovf

Before continuing you have they show you how big the download will be, and how much disk space it will consume.

Once
you have selected the name for the appliance, where you will store the
files, and what network you will be using Virtual Center will grab the
OVF file and import it

Once
this process is complete you have a virtual machine configured with the
manufacturer reccomended specifications with almost no effort.

I'm
really impressed with this process. Hopefully application vendors
will embrace this format as the new way to deploy test machines. If
this is embraced widely in the consumer level virtualization products,
this will be a boon for IT people studying for certification exams at
home as well.

I
also wanted to mention a new member of the virtualization blogging
family : Mark Bradley. Not only is Mark a good friend of mine, and an
expert consultant in the UK with a great technical mind especially when
it comes to scripting. I'm expecting some great stuff once he gets
underway with the VI PowerShell Toolkit for VMware. His site is http://www.ridethevirt.blogspot.com/