Is there a way to map multiple datastores when moving VMs with ovftool? People have been asking for this for years:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/50zt10/deploy_ovf_in_multiple_datastores/
https://communities.vmware.com/message/1659941#1659941
https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/dysc0w/ovftool_with_multiple_datastores/
"I would have expected an ovftool option like --datastore:sourcename=targetname
similar to --net:s1=t1"
Can someone from vmware make this a feature request?
The standalone migration tool does it. So I would think the OVF tool could do it also. But I'm using the migration tool and things are working so that's fine.
BTW the Converter does not(can't) import of a VM in the forms of OVF/OVA etc, but rather as the name implies moves or migrates VMs around. The operations to perform multi-datastore settings are very different within the vSphere echo system. The APIs are different. Creating VM uses plain VirtualMachine createVm, but import uses importVApp API. The former allows for placement anyway you wish but the latter does not.
Thus we can not compare Ovftool with Converter product in terms of importing OVF/OVA etc.