VMWare

VM Import

AWS Link

Create Ova File

• Install ovf tool

ovftool

• Build the image with the new version bundle file downloaded from VMWare site

docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/tmp ovftool --noSSLVerify vi://<user>@<ip>/LAB/vm/aws /tmp/aws.ova

AWS PreRequisites

• Create vmimport role

  • Documentation
  • The documentation has a error in trust policy "sts:Externalid": "vmimport" should be "sts:ExternalId": "vmimport"
    • Error explain

• Upload to S3

  • Use Multipart Upload

  • MultiPart Upload

Import Image

aws ec2 import-image --description "My server VM" --disk-containers "file://containers.json" --region eu-west-1

# Monitor
aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --import-task-ids ${TASK_ID} --region eu-west-1

• Containers.json file

[
    {
      "Description": "My Server OVA",
      "Format": "ova",
      "UserBucket": {
          "S3Bucket": "fsantos-vmware-ova-templates",
          "S3Key": "aws.ova"
      }
}]