The following sections show you how to modify OVF packages. What to read next Renaming the OVF PackageYou can rename an OVF package by converting the OVF to an OVF. This action also renames all the disk names and changes the references in the OVF descriptor. Omitting Disks in the VMware OVF Tool OutputIf you want only information about the OVF descriptor and not about the disks that it refers to, you can suppress output. The following example command omits disk output and simply copies the OVF descriptor and any message bundle files that might be associated with it: Compressing an OVF PackageFor maximum compression of an OVF package with multiple virtual machines, set both the --compress=9 and --makeDeltaDisks options. The following are examples of using maximum compression: Chunking or Splitting OVF PackagesSome file systems have a restriction on maximum file size. For example, FAT32 allows files only up to 2GB.You can split the OVF files from a generated package into pieces of a specified maximum size. The default measurement is megabytes (keyword mb). You can specify other units using one of the following keywords: TPM as a Virtual Device in OVFTrusted platform module (TPM) is a hardware device that can establish a chain of trust for the software that is being loaded onto a machine. VMware virtual TPM (vTPM) is a fully compatible implementation for virtual machine equivalence. Parent topic: Examples of OVF Tool Syntax
