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Get OVF properties from the guestOS. When you configure an OVF environment, you can choose between CD-ROM and VMware-tools methods to transport information into the virtual machine: VMware tools. If you choose VMware tools transport method for OVF environment, according to the used OS type, the method to retrieve properties can vary a bit. VMware.ovf files can be executed immediately for easy deployment in development and testing environments. About MacStadium Private Clouds With a MacStadium hosted Mac private cloud you have everything you need for true automation.
Import an Open Virtualization Format Virtual Machine You can import an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) virtual machine and run it in Fusion. You can import both.ovf and.ova files. Fusion converts the virtual machine from OVF format to VMware runtime (.vmx) format. VMware Fusion: Powerfully Simple Virtual Machines for Mac. VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Fusion Player Desktop Hypervisors give Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems, containers or Kubernetes clusters, side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting.
All MacStadium VMware private cloud environments have access to a powerful set of VMware features.
High Availability
VMware HA provides protection against hardware failures. The HA service always monitors your virtual machines and can restart failed VMs on alternative host servers to reduce application downtime.
vMotion
Move virtual machines running on one host to another with one click. There’s no service downtime as your VM’s active memory and operating status are transferred immediately. End-users are not affected (unlike typical scheduled maintenance on bare metal hardware), as the network is also virtualized and the virtual machines retain their network identity and connections.
vNetwork Distributed Switch
Centralize the provisioning, administration and monitoring of your virtual machines, using a network cluster combination. The vNetwork Distributed Switch ensures quality of service (QoS) to different VMware network features by allocating the maximum bandwidth wherever needed.
vSphere API for Automation
The vSphere API is exposed as a Web service, running on VMware vSphere server systems. The API provides access to the vSphere management components—the managed objects that you can use to manage, monitor, and control life-cycle operations of virtual machines and other virtual infrastructure components (data centers, datastores, networks, and so on).
Site Recovery Manager
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is a disaster recovery solution that provides automated orchestration and non-disruptive testing of centralized recovery plans for all virtualized applications. MacStadium offers geographically-diverse data centers for site-to-site replication of private cloud environments.
Distributed Resource Scheduler
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) optimizes your private cloud infrastructure without any human intervention required. Whatever activity peaks you may have, this feature will spread the load of your virtual machines evenly across the nodes in your private cloud. This enables you to easily deploy multiple virtual machines while keeping costs down.
Snapshots
A snapshot captures the entire state of a VM at the time the snapshot is taken. Snapshots are useful when you need to repeatedly revert to the same state, but you don't want to create multiple virtual machines.
Linked Clones
LinkedClones are virtual machine copies created from the snapshot of a single parent VM. They share virtual disks with the parent VM in an ongoing manner, which conserves disk space and allows multiple VMs to use the same OS. Linked clones allow for faster creation of virtual machines by using the exact files on the parent VM at the time of snapshot and allow a VM to look and feel more like a container. It’s an excellent method of creating a short-lived ephemeral VMs.
Storage vMotion
Move your virtual machine disk files between various storage spaces without interruption. vMotion guarantees the integrity of these operations so the service remains available during scheduled storage maintenance. This feature is also very useful for migrating to new files.
Thin Provisioning
Your storage requirements are decreased through dynamic allocation of disk space. Your virtual machines will have the right amount of disk space without their performance being affected. Your investment and operating costs will also be reduced due to lower storage requirements.
vSphere Replication
Continually replicate running virtual machines to geographically-diverse locations. Replication creates a copy of a virtual machines that can be stored locally within a cluster or at another site, providing a data source to rapidly restore a virtual machine within minutes.
Network & Storage I/O Control
Configure rules and strategies for every virtual machine and application to enable permanent availability. As soon as congestion is detected, resources are automatically allocated to high priority applications.
Hot Add
Usage won’t put a strain on your projects any more thanks to Hot Add. This feature enables you to increase processor and memory resources allocated to your virtual machines. The operation is carried out instantly—without service disruption.
Creating VMs from the Marketplace or OVF
Ovf Vmware For Mac Catalina
Compress and share virtual machines using the VMware Marketplace exchange platform. Find hundreds of preconfigured VMs ready to be deployed. VMware .ovf files can be executed immediately for easy deployment in development and testing environments.