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esxi-sddc-ovftool-deploy

Run VMware vSphere SDDC Cluster Configuration operations.

This workflow utilizes ovftool to deploy an OVA. It requires that the JSON description of the OVA options is generated. This is done using the govc import.spec <OVA_FILE> option. The output is a JSON stanza that should be saved to ova/param-json. The ovftool-deploy task parses the JSON in that Param and generates an OVFTool command line argument list.

See the ovftool-deploy Task for more details on this processing.

Currently, the OVFTool command line options utilizes the govc based Params to describe the resource to deploy the OVA to. The Param values that describe where to deploy to can be found below.

required:

  • govc/url = URL for the vSphere target to deploy the OVA to (eg. ESXi or vCenter)
  • govc/username = Username on the vSphere target to deploy to
  • govc/password = Password on the vSphere target to deploy to
  • govc-ova-location = URL location of the OVA appliance

optional:

  • govc/port = optional non-standard port of the govc/url
  • govc/ova-type = used (along with govc/ova-version) to create custom rules
  • govc/ova-version = used (along with govc/ova-type) to create custom rules

Unlike govc - the OVFTool is capable of importing an OVA from a remote HTTP resource, so the OVA is not staged inside of the Contex Container before deployment - so no "stage-ova" task is required.