Not Loading OVF Guest Description into vSphere or vCenter Server

Sometimes, Bacula is not able to load the OVF guest description into your vSphere or vCenter server. This is mainly due to some limitations of VMware, such as “you can’t deploy an OVF that contains references to a mounted CDROM”, etc. The vSphere Plugin implements workarounds for well-known issues, but the plugin doesn’t cover all of them. If you are facing this problem, you can use the default_ovf parameter in vsphere_global.conf file. Basically, you will need to configure the default_ovf parameter to refer to an existing simple OVF template. The restore process will use it automatically, and you will have to configure your VM afterward for properties such as CPU number, amount of RAM, etc.

[vsphere]
...
   default_ovf=/opt/bacula/etc/default.ovf

See also

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• Possible Additional Tasks Required after Restore on Windows

• Amount of Space Returned by EXSi or vCenter Accuracy

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