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Do you want to create an appliance?<br />
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Check this article<br />
<a href="http://www.vadapt.com/2010/03/218/" rel="ugc">http://www.vadapt.com/2010/03/218/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.evanhoffman.com/evan/2009/09/11/exporting-vmware-server-vms-to-ovaovf-with-ovftoo/" rel="ugc">http://www.evanhoffman.com/evan/2009/09/11/exporting-vmware-server-vms-to-ovaovf-with-ovftoo/</a><br />
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You can export a VM to an appliance using the vSphere Client
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Do you want to create an appliance?

Check this article
http://www.vadapt.com/2010/03/218/ [http://www.vadapt.com/2010/03/218/]
http://www.evanhoffman.com/evan/2009/09/11/exporting-vmware-server-vms-to-ovaovf-with-ovftoo/ [http://www.evanhoffman.com/evan/2009/09/11/exporting-vmware-server-vms-to-ovaovf-with-ovftoo/]

You can export a VM to an appliance using the vSphere Client

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The &quot;export ovf template&quot; option in the vSphere client is grayed out. How do I enable it? 
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The "export ovf template" option in the vSphere client is grayed out. How do I enable it?

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are you using connected to vCenter, direct to host?<br />
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what version?<br />
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free or licensed?
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are you using connected to vCenter, direct to host?

what version?

free or licensed?

Export-OVF.jpg

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I am connected to vCenter 5, on Esx5, vSphere client 5<br />
I did select the VM. &nbsp;&quot;Export OVF Template&quot; is disabled.....
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I am connected to vCenter 5, on Esx5, vSphere client 5
I did select the VM.  "Export OVF Template" is disabled.....

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I found out why. I hate to shutdown the VM. <br />
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Thanks!
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I found out why. I hate to shutdown the VM.

Thanks!

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If i export the vm this way, &quot;export ovf template&quot; &nbsp;from vsphere client, could I send this to our customers where it will be deployed on different esx servers, network, storage? 
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If i export the vm this way, "export ovf template"  from vsphere client, could I send this to our customers where it will be deployed on different esx servers, network, storage?

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Yes, but test yourself first.
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If the appliance contains ANY Microsoft Licensed software you will need to check the Licensing, as this could be seen as software piracy! As you do not have the right to distribute.
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If the appliance contains ANY Microsoft Licensed software you will need to check the Licensing, as this could be seen as software piracy! As you do not have the right to distribute.

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Hi,<br />
What is the best way to create a vmware vm appliance with my software installed on the vm?<br />
I just installed VMware studio, but the web interface only allows you to create a vm appliance with only the OS? &nbsp;If i have a running vm, could i somehow create a profile from it to create a vm appliance (ova file)?<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
Jamie
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Hi,
What is the best way to create a vmware vm appliance with my software installed on the vm?
I just installed VMware studio, but the web interface only allows you to create a vm appliance with only the OS?  If i have a running vm, could i somehow create a profile from it to create a vm appliance (ova file)?

Thanks
Jamie

What is the best way to create a vmware vm appliance with my software installed on it?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.