Export workloads to removable media for seeding a replication

As a tenant, to use a replication seed for configuring a replication, you must first export a virtual machine or a vApp to removable media then give it to your provider.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you have sufficient user privileges in the vSphere Client to power off a virtual machine.
• Verify that you have the VMware OVF Tool installed and configured.

Procedure

1. By using the vSphere Client, power off the virtual machine or the vApp in the source site.
2. Export a virtual machine from vCenter Server to removable media.

   ovftool	'vi://root@VC_IP/Datacenter_Name/vm/VM_FQDN' VM_FQDN.ova 

   After the process finishes, you can power on the virtual machine.

3. (Optional) Export a vApp from VMware Cloud Director to removable media.

   ovftool 'vcloud://ORG_ADMIN@VCLOUD_DIRECTOR_IP:443?org=ORG_NAME&vdc=VDC_NAME&vapp=VAPP_NAME' VAPP_NAME.ova

4. Give the removable media containing the exported files to your provider.