Wednesday 29 June 2016

Export OVF or OVA templates in VMware vSphere Web Client or vSphere traditional Client.

Or, How to Export OVF or OVA template in VMware vSphere?
Or, Exporting OVF or OVA template in VMware vSphere.

Descriptions:
There are very minor difference between the way of exporting OVF templates using vSphere Web Client and vSphere Traditional Client. Both are given below with screenshot for your easy reference.
If you are willing to know the difference between these two template files type (OVA and OVF), please refer my another article What is difference between OVF and OVA Templates in VMware.

Please Note: You must have the VM in shutdown/powered off status to be able to export OVF or OVA template of the particular Virtual Machine.

Steps:
Using VMware vSphere Web Client:
Login to vSphere Web Console > Go to Home > Click on VMs and Templates > Select the Powered Off VM you need > Go to Action Menu > Go to Template Option> Choose Export OVF Template > Choose the template types you need (OVA or OVF) > Choose the Directory Path where you want this file to be exported > Click OK > Wait for the OVA/OVF export process to be completed.

For GUI view, please refer the below screenshots with sequential steps.


















Using vSphere Traditional Client:
Login to vSphere Client > Go to File Menu > Go to Export > Choose Export OVF Template > Choose the template types you need (OVA or OVF) > Choose the Directory Path where you want this file to be exported > Click OK > Wait for the OVA/OVF export process to be completed.

For GUI view, please refer the below screenshots with sequential steps.













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  2. Unknown19 April 2018 at 02:00

    This doesn't work in vCenter 6.5

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    1. Techies Sphere19 April 2018 at 08:48

      in 6.5, you can directly Click on the VM(should be in shutdown state), Go to template > Click on Export OVF template .... :) Hope this helps..

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  3. Desertsweeper20 August 2021 at 17:02

    ESXi 6.7 Export to OVF fails after some time. Tried different browsers and even Workstation Pro but the export t OVF option is gray

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    1. Techies Sphere21 August 2021 at 20:35

      Please make sure you have deleted any snapshot from the VM before exporting it to OVF.

      Thanks

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