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Malcolm_Salmon1
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusALL vs LTM ESX OVA Download?
Hi
I'm looking to install LTM and GTM VE's on ESX and am looking to download the file. However, when I go to the download page there are a couple of OVAs to download, these are ALL and LTM. The ...
Hamish
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusFWIW, I always manually create a VM and install from the ISO... The OVA is just a pre-installed version with a HDD image (vmdk) and a descriptor file (OVF) that tells VMWare what sort of VM to create...
If you create your own, you can for example install on as large a HDD as you like. You can grow the disk later, but it never used to be supported, and was always a bit of a PITA, and I always used to run out of space on the OVA versions way too easily.
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