OVA and hardware versions

I made a virtual appliance a while ago for a client everything seemed to be working, but there was a slight problem with it, since it was exported in ova and imported back to a ESXi 5.0 it didn't work because of the virtual hardware version. I spent some time figuring what the correct version should be and here is what I found:

 virtualHW.version = "4"                 # essential for ESX 3.5

 virtualHW.version = "7"                 # essential for ESX 4.0

 virtualHW.version = "8"                 # essential for ESX 5.0

 virtualHW.version = "9"                 # essential for ESX 5.1

You will find the hardware version in the VMX file afterwards you can export it back to OVA. Let's cross fingers and hope it works this time.

VMware VCA Certification

VMware is offering now free training courses. During the holidays I got really bored so I took the VCA-Cloud Training course and did the exam today for breakfast and passed it - VMware Certified Associate - Cloud.

Try the free courses they are really useful for understanding the basic concepts, there is also free practice exam available on the site:
http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=40721&ui=www_edu

VMware OVF Tool

Tried converting a VMX file today to OVA so I can migrate it to another environment. It's pretty easy actually all you have to do is: 
1. In cmd go to C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player\OVFTool
2. Convert with ovftool by executing ovftool.exe <path>\<file>.vmx <path>\<file>.ova