Best way to get Images
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I'm a Fortinet Engineer. As part of my job I'm constantly testing Fortinet VMs of different types (FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, FortiGate, etc.) I've migrated from VMWare 6.7 over to XCP-ng and XO (Compiled my own.) In the past, I would download a zip file containing the OVF and all of the disk images associated with the OVF and import them into VSphere when I wanted to spin something up. I'm not sure how to accomplish the same task within XO. One of the options for VM images is XEN which contains an OVF and and two VHDs. What do I need to do to use these to create a VM?
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Are these OVFs coming from a third party? If so, then you would need to convert them to an OVA before importing them to XO.
You could convert it to a template (under the VM's Advanced tab) once you have it imported, and then use this template for future deployments.
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Indeed, as per @Danp
Xen Orchestra provides an OVA importer. Since VMware decided to play dumb and not supporting OVA exports, you have 2 options:
- create an OVA yourself, it's trivial: it's a tarball with the OVF and VMDK disks. XO is capable on reading the OVA, prepare the VM metadata and then will import the VMDK
- import the VMDK in XO directly, and create the VM metadata yourself (I think we could easily add OVF metadata read import in XO since we already do it with OVA)
I really do not understand why (well I think I did) Vmware removed the OVA export feature despite it's a lot easier to deal with.
