Note: I’ve changed the destination to the folder C:\Users\user\Documents to avoid conflicts with VMDK. I’ll keep going to change a couple of things… so let’s move on to conversion from OVF to VMX. Writing OVF package: C:\Users\user\Documents\ddve-vsphere-5.7.30.2-525061\ddve-5.7.30.2-525061.ovfĪt this point you can create a VM and attach the VMDK for most cases. Source is signed but could not verify certificate (possibly self-signed) Here is an example of a convertion from OVA to OVF and in the end the VMDK will be present as well. Now you have to start CMD and navigate to the folder where you installed the OVF Tool (Default path is c:\Program Files\VMware). The software required are listed below:ģ.) The appliance itself, in this case data domain: In this example I’ll be using EMC Data Domain appliance.
Mere mortals like myself use Virtualbox at home, so these steps demonstrate how to convert such appliances to be run on Virtualbox instead of VMware ESXI or vSphere. There are a couple of appliances that are nice to be deployed in a private test environment, such as HP Virtual Storage Appliance P4500, EMC Data Domain among others.