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Posted to users@cloudstack.apache.org by José Egas López <jo...@farmaenlace.com> on 2014/09/24 19:09:31 UTC

Adding OVA or OVF VMs to CS 4.3.1

Hi, I have exported an OVA and also an OVF template from an existing VM 
from vSphere.
The templates have the following types of file:
OVA --> templateName.ova
OVF-->  templateName.mf; templateName.ovf; templateName.vmdk

I want to deploy a VM in CS from one of those templates.
I'm not sure about how CS 4.3.1 is supporting this file formats.
So the question is, how can I add my template into CS templates?



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Regards,
José

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RE: Adding OVA or OVF VMs to CS 4.3.1

Posted by Sanjeev Neelarapu <sa...@citrix.com>.

Jose,

You can add the .ova fila as template in CS.

-Sanjeev

-----Original Message-----
From: José Egas López [mailto:joseegas@farmaenlace.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:40 PM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Adding OVA or OVF VMs to CS 4.3.1

Hi, I have exported an OVA and also an OVF template from an existing VM from vSphere.
The templates have the following types of file:
OVA --> templateName.ova
OVF-->  templateName.mf; templateName.ovf; templateName.vmdk

I want to deploy a VM in CS from one of those templates.
I'm not sure about how CS 4.3.1 is supporting this file formats.
So the question is, how can I add my template into CS templates?

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Regards,
José

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Re: Adding OVA or OVF VMs to CS 4.3.1

Posted by ilya musayev <il...@gmail.com>.

Only OVA is supported - as its a single file VS 3 files you get with OVF.

On 9/24/14, 10:09 AM, José Egas López wrote:
> Hi, I have exported an OVA and also an OVF template from an existing 
> VM from vSphere.
> The templates have the following types of file:
> OVA --> templateName.ova
> OVF-->  templateName.mf; templateName.ovf; templateName.vmdk
>
> I want to deploy a VM in CS from one of those templates.
> I'm not sure about how CS 4.3.1 is supporting this file formats.
> So the question is, how can I add my template into CS templates?
>
>
>

Re: Adding OVA or OVF VMs to CS 4.3.1

Posted by José Egas López <jo...@farmaenlace.com>.

Thanks to all, that worked for me!

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Regards,
José

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El 26/09/2014 21:21, Kirk Kosinski escribió:
> Hi, as the others mentioned only OVA is supported.  To use it in
> CloudStack you first need to upload the OVA file to a web server that
> CloudStack (specifically the SSVM) can reach.  Next, in the CloudStack
> UI go to Templates > Register template and fill in the details
> (including the URL to the OVA).  You can also use the registerTemplate
> API command [1] with a tool like cloudmonkey [2] for this step.
> Finally, when the template has been downloaded by the SSVM and shows as
> "Ready" in CloudStack, you can deploy instances using that template.
>
> Best regards,
> Kirk
>
> [1]
> http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.3/root_admin/registerTemplate.html
> [2]
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+CloudMonkey+CLI
>
> On 09/24/2014 10:09 AM, José Egas López wrote:
>> Hi, I have exported an OVA and also an OVF template from an existing VM
>> from vSphere.
>> The templates have the following types of file:
>> OVA --> templateName.ova
>> OVF-->  templateName.mf; templateName.ovf; templateName.vmdk
>>
>> I want to deploy a VM in CS from one of those templates.
>> I'm not sure about how CS 4.3.1 is supporting this file formats.
>> So the question is, how can I add my template into CS templates?
>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Adding OVA or OVF VMs to CS 4.3.1

Posted by Kirk Kosinski <ki...@gmail.com>.

Hi, as the others mentioned only OVA is supported.  To use it in
CloudStack you first need to upload the OVA file to a web server that
CloudStack (specifically the SSVM) can reach.  Next, in the CloudStack
UI go to Templates > Register template and fill in the details
(including the URL to the OVA).  You can also use the registerTemplate
API command [1] with a tool like cloudmonkey [2] for this step.
Finally, when the template has been downloaded by the SSVM and shows as
"Ready" in CloudStack, you can deploy instances using that template.

Best regards,
Kirk

[1]
http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.3/root_admin/registerTemplate.html
[2]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+CloudMonkey+CLI

On 09/24/2014 10:09 AM, José Egas López wrote:
> Hi, I have exported an OVA and also an OVF template from an existing VM
> from vSphere.
> The templates have the following types of file:
> OVA --> templateName.ova
> OVF-->  templateName.mf; templateName.ovf; templateName.vmdk
> 
> I want to deploy a VM in CS from one of those templates.
> I'm not sure about how CS 4.3.1 is supporting this file formats.
> So the question is, how can I add my template into CS templates?
> 
> 
>