Is there a way for deploying OVF file that is stored on ESXi datastore?
There was many previous articles about this topic where it was stated that the only way to do that is:
1) Go to https://ESXi-IP-Address/folder
2) Navigate to directory where your OVF file reside
3) Right click OVF file and copy link address
4) Go to vCenter and choose "Deploy OVF", select option "deploy from URL" and put the copied address
Seems this worked in 6.X ESXi releases, but in my setup (ESXi & vCenter are 7.0 update 2) when you copy "link address" (step 3 above) the address is formatted as:
https://192.168.4.1/folder/Mine.OVF?dcPath=ha-datacenter&dsName=datastore1
As you can see, the URL is feeded with 2 additional parameters that vCenter wont be able to parse:
dcPath=ha-datacenter
dsName=datastore1
Any ideas?