reduce the size of an OVF file..

[michelvaillanco]

Hi,

Every time that i  export a VM machine to an OVF file it seems that the file is too big.I would like to know how can i  to reduce the size of the file because it is too large??

I am using VCenter 5.1.

Michel Vaillancourt

[AjithDhas]

OVF size depends on the vmdk size of your VM. You can reduce the size of OVF by changing the disk type to Thin Provisioning...

[michelvaillanco]

When should I make the change to thin prov? Before I export the machine?

[AjithDhas]

Yes. But in that too, if your drives are completely occupied with files then ovf file size will be large...

[michelvaillanco]

I checked the VM machine and it is configure to Thin Prov?

is there some thing alse that i can do?

Michel Vaillancourt

[AjithDhas]

Then I guess the VM is fully loaded, that's why the OVF size is also large...

If that's the case nothing can be done...

[unsichtbare · Accepted solution]

Why not use an OVA which is a a TARball of the OVF files, and then use gzip or ZIP to compress it further?

[michelvaillanco]

Hi,

Should i first export to ova and then use powerCli to compress it?

[michelvaillanco]

Thank u. i will try it.