OVF conversion using vCenter

[ShanVMLand]

I have a situation where I need to convert around 40-50 VMs as OVF package. I think vCenter can export the OVF one at a time. Is there anyway that I can run parallel job?. Anyway, it is testing environment. No worries about any performance issue.

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

[vmroyale]

Hello.

You might be able to use the OVF Tool for this.

Good Luck!

[ShanVMLand]

I used OVF Tool. Any idea how many parallel jobs that I can run using OVF Tool?.

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

[vmroyale]

The vSphere 4.1 Configuration Maximums lists 8 as the maximum number of "Concurrent virtual machine to virtual machine import or export tasks." I would expect this to fall in line with this limit.

[ShanVMLand]

Thank you, If I use OVF tool to convert the VMs directly on the host itself. Will it use the host resources (CPU/Memory/Disk IOPS)?. Though, I am firing command from my desktop. My desktop is poor one with 1 CPU/1GB RAM.

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

[vmroyale · Accepted solution]

It will use the host resources, so you should be fine on that underpowered desktop. You can monitor the host resource usage, and see the CPU, Disk and Network are all pretty high during the process.

[ShanVMLand]

Thanks a lot.

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!