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what are youtrying to do with the OVF Tool?<br />
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Why not use the File, Export, OVF Template from the vSphere Client for Export?
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what are youtrying to do with the OVF Tool?

Why not use the File, Export, OVF Template from the vSphere Client for Export?

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I did this the graphical way as well, and I receive the same error message.
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I did this the graphical way as well, and I receive the same error message.

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So Export from vSphere Client does not function?<br />
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what are you wanting to do with the OVF?
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So Export from vSphere Client does not function?

what are you wanting to do with the OVF?

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what do you want to do with exported ovf?
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what do you want to do with exported ovf?

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I want to take this OVF VM and place it onto a completely different infrastructure.
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I want to take this OVF VM and place it onto a completely different infrastructure.

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Sorry on delay, but this worked great thanks!
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Sorry on delay, but this worked great thanks!

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when I run the OVFTool within 1 datacenter called Test &amp;&nbsp;Integ, I am able to complete an ovf export, however when I run the tool against another datacenter called Live, I get an error of:<br />
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Error: Curl error: Couldn't connect to server<br />
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the credentials are the same throughout Vcenter this is what I run in command line:<br />
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ovftool &quot;vi://172.31.1.110/Live/vm<wbr />/Win2008r2<wbr />&quot; c:temp
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when I run the OVFTool within 1 datacenter called Test & Integ, I am able to complete an ovf export, however when I run the tool against another datacenter called Live, I get an error of:

Error: Curl error: Couldn't connect to server

the credentials are the same throughout Vcenter this is what I run in command line:

ovftool "vi://172.31.1.110/Live/vm/Win2008r2" c:temp

OVF Tool Error

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.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.