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Deploy an OVF Template through Content Libraries

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Learn how to deploy OVF templates offered by OVHcloud.

OVHcloud offers OVF templates that you can deploy directly from your vSphere (version 7.0 or later) across content libraries.

 

Requirements

  • web client access (HTML5)

 

Instructions

Step 1 - Deploying a template

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Click each tab across the top to view all content.

From a content library
Directly from the Cluster view

You can find the content libraries your vSphere has signed up to via your vSphere homepage, by clicking the Content Libraries icon.

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Then click on one of the libraries to view their contents and deploy a new virtual machine from the OVF & OVA Templates tab.

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Step 2 - Configuring the template

The template deployment process will ask you to confirm the details and a destination for the new virtual machine (data center, cluster, datastore, etc.).

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Some templates accept deployment properties that allow you to quickly configure the new virtual machine by creating, for example, a privileged user or configuring the main network interface.

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Templates that do not offer customization will have the default credentials specified in the virtual machine notes.

 

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