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Is it a standalone ESXi box or do you have a VCSA, can you please tell me what version of ESXi etc you're running.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Alex
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Yes they are running vCenter.. I don't have access to it so not exactly sure what version
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I am trying to export a server from on premise ESX environment to vCloud Director on a hosted ESX platform. I noticed that you can only import ovf files into vCloud Director, my understanding is that a ovf export is made up of multiple (.ovf / .vmdk / .mf) files where as an ova is a single file export. If vCloud Director doesn't support the upload of ova's how do you get a single ovf file that includes the vmdk's and mf files ?
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I am trying to export a server from on premise ESX environment to vCloud Director on a hosted ESX platform. I noticed that you can only import ovf files into vCloud Director, my understanding is that a ovf export is made up of multiple (.ovf / .vmdk / .mf) files where as an ova is a single file export. If vCloud Director doesn't support the upload of ova's how do you get a single ovf file that includes the vmdk's and mf files ?

Importing OVF to vCloud Director

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.