Upload ovf/ova to vCloud Director with PowerShell

Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:08:49 +0000

Recently support for NPAPI has been removed from Google Chrome. While understandable from a security point of view it does mean that some plugins no longer work.

A good example is VMware's Client Integration Plugin where we've lost the ability to upload an ovf template. While VMware has published a fix for vCenter (see this kb), it has not been fixed for vCloud Director:

Convert Citrix License Server VPX to OVF

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:41:54 +0000

I wanted to run a virtual Citrix License server in my LAB.

Unfortunately Citrix only provides the VPX License Server in XenServer format (.xva). If you want to run the VPX on VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V you need to convert it first.

The option to convert a Xen Virtual Appliance to OVF format was removed in XenConvert 2.4.1. So for a conversion you need version 2.3.1.

Here are the direct download links:

However when I tried to convert the downloaded VPX (Citrix_License_Server_VPX_v11.10.0_Build_12002.xva) I got the error "Failed to decode tar header record":

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Upload ovf/ova to vCloud Director with PowerShell

Convert Citrix License Server VPX to OVF