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1. Re: Help for Appliance Automation
goldmann Dec 20, 2010 3:25 AM (in response to boxgrinder_baby)1 of 1 people found this helpfulHi,
Doing this you'll create new server in VMware Server. Instead you need to import the appliance. To do this, please add an existing virtual machine to inventory. See this blog post for instructions. Let me know how it went!
--Marek
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2. Help for Appliance Automation
tdyas Jan 8, 2011 8:06 PM (in response to boxgrinder_baby)1 of 1 people found this helpfulVMware's ovftool can deploy instances right from the command line. I use it to deploy images into an ESX server. Just specify the VMware specific "vi" URL as the target.
ovftool --datastore=DATASTORE_NAME --name="VM_NAME" --powerOn VMX_FILE vi://USER:PASSWORD@HYPERVISOR_FQDN_OR_IP