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msk69

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May 29, 2020
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Hi all. We have 15 application installed on two different VM machines. VMware version is 5. Some Vendor told us to get the VCenter application to manage these multiple applications. They also told us that VCenter application will automatically and manually create an image of each application without shutting down the application. Is that true? We wants an image of our each application without shutting down these apps. Is it possible with Venter?
 
It's not really clear what you are asking but vcenter is mainly a tool to centrally manage hosts, storage and networking etc

If you want to virtualise apps then something like Horizons or thinapp may be an option but v5 is very old and out of support now.
 
Hi,
I just wanted to take complete OVA image of application running in our VMWare environment without shutting down these apps. Some tec told me that VCenter can be use to Export complete OVA of any application without shutting down the app. Is it correct?
 
You can't export an app within a VM to an OVA.

You can only export a VM to an OVA or OVF but not sure if you can export a powered on VM with vcenter.

When you say "15 applications" do you mean 15x virtual machines across two hosts?
 


When you say "15 applications" do you mean 15x virtual machines across two hosts?-->Yes
and you are right that we can export VM to OVA/OVF format and that what i wants to do without shutting down the application, some Tech told me that Vcenter can export VM in OVA/OVF format while the VM continues to stay active.
 
Don't think you can export a powered on VM in either esx or vcenter, all the instructions I've found online say it should be powered off. This makes sense as you wouldn't want to be exporting a VM that is in a constant changing state.

If this is for backups you may be better of looking at Veeam which uses snapshots to backup powered on VMs
 
Thanks bro for the help. Can veeam export snapshot to another dektop PC??
 
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