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The OVA import process will then commence. After some time it will then complete and you will be able to use the virtual machine. Once powered on, use our provided credentials to login. You can find this in the Install instructions on our website.

Tip: Once authenticated, our appliance ships with a Message of the Day (MOTD) which will provide you with the virtual machine's IP address (if DHCP is enabled), used to access the NMIS Suite Graphical User Interface (GUI). You can also find this by typing "ip a" into the console of the virtual machine.

Importing the OVA file directly to ESXi using VMware OVF Tool

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ovftool --name="FirstWave-NMIS-VM" -dm="thin" -ds=SSD_Datastore -nw="NMIS Network" FirstWave-VM-20240130-Debian11-x86_64.ova vi://user:escaped_password@host_ip_address


Opening OVA source: FirstWave-VM-20240130-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Opening VI target: vi://user@host_ip_address:443/
Deploying to VI: vi://user@host_ip_address:443/
Transfer Completed
Warning:
- No supported manifest(sha1, sha256, sha512) entry found for: 'omk-vm9-debian11-disk001.vmdk'.
- No supported manifest(sha1, sha256, sha512) entry found for: 'omk-vm9-debian11-disk002.vmdk'.
- No manifest file found.
Completed successfully

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