Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV)

Sangfor HCI and aSV provide a unified infrastructure combining compute, storage, networking, and built-in security to simplify deployment, operations, and services.
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Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV) {{ breadTitle }} User Manual Virtual Machine Configuration Guidance New virtual Machine Import OVA / VMA / OVF Virtual Machine
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Import OVA / VMA / OVF Virtual Machine

{{ $t('productDocDetail.updateTime') }}: 2026-01-05

Description

At present, there is a virtualized environment. It is necessary to export the virtual machines in other virtualized platforms into virtual machine files in VMA, OVA, or OVF format and then import them into the HCI platform.

Precautions

  1. If the virtual machine's name exported from VMware Workstation is in Chinese, it cannot be imported into the HCI platform and needs to be renamed first.
  1. It does not support the OVA import hyper fusion platform exported by the VMware web page controller.
  2. All virtual machines exported from VMware must be uninstalled after being imported into the HCI platform.

Prerequisites

A virtual machine file in VMA, OVA, or OVF format.

Steps

  1. Select Compute > New > Import VM.

  1. Fill in the following information and click OK.

• Virtual Image Files: Prepared virtual machine images in VMA, OVA, or OVF format.

• Group: Specify a group to which this virtual machine belongs.

• Tag: Specify one or more than one tag for the virtual machine.

• HA:  If Migrate to another node if the node fails is selected, the virtual machine will be recovered onto another node in case the node running the VM fails.

• Datastore: Specifies a datastore to store virtual machines. HA is configurable only when a shared datastore is selected.

• Storage Policy: Specify the number of replication and performances.

• Run Location: The run location specifies which node's CPU and memory resources are used when the virtual machine runs. You can select and specify a host automatically. When the selected storage domain is selected as the run location, or when the selected storage domain is chosen as the run location, it can also be set as the default location.

• OS: Specify an operating system for the virtual machine. The following guest OS is supported: Sangfor, Windows, Linux, Linux distributions, and others. Sangfor operating system is mainly for aCenter software.

  1. Import the virtual machine file locally. Do not close the page during the import process.

  1. Importing the virtual machine file locally is successful. At this time, the virtual machine NIC is not connected to the switch. Click Compute and move to the VM. Click More > Edit to enter the VM editing interface.

  1. Click eth0, select the corresponding connected device, and click OK.