Deploying an OVA using PowerCLI

In this blog post, I will demonstrate the deploying of an OVA using PowerCLI.

Prerequisites: –

1. The source of the OVA file (I will use HCIBench 2.3.1 OVA )
2. A Cluster
3. A Host
4. A Datastore
5. The VM name

For every parameters I will create a PowerCLI variable to make the things easy 🙂

1. The VM source variable ==> $VMsource

$VMsource = "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\HCIBench_2.3.1.ova"

2. The Cluster variable ==> $VMCluster

$VMCluster = Get-Cluster -name "Toffaha-HCI"

3. The Host variable ==> $VMHost

I will view all hosts in that Cluster , then I will select a specific one

$VMCluster | Get-VMHost
$VMHOST = $VMCluster | Get-VMHost -Name 10.60.32.55

4. The Datastore variable ==> $VMDatastore

$VMDatastore = Get-Datastore -name vsanDatastore

$VMDatastore

5. The VM name variable ==>  $VMName

$VMName = “HCIBench”

 $VMName

Deploy the HCIBench OVA file

we will use Import-VApp cmdlet with the 5 variables have been created.

$VMHOST | Import-VApp -Source $VMsource -Location $VMCluster -Datastore $VMDatastore -Name $VMName -Force