First off you have to understand I just inherited a Oracle OVM environment. I am more of a VMware ESXi guy so I know how ESXi operates. I was recently told (yesterday) that we do not have a backup and restore solution in place for the Oracle environment, so this includes the Oracle OVM manager environment, several production and non-production VMs as well as our Oracle OEM environment which is currently configured as an Oracle VM. I have already opened a ticket with Oracle for a real "Certified" Oracle backup software solution, but so far this request has fallen on deaf ears.
From what I can see, Oracle Virtual Manager (OVM) is based on the older RHEL-like Xen format (with some unique naming nomenclatures) for virtual machine (VM) and disk allocation. As seen below, this is an example of what a current Oracle VM configuration looks like and how convoluted it is for figuring out where everything resides. If you notice the disk images are NOT named in any way back to the actual VM image (i.e. myserver.xvda), but more of a UUID format. Oracle's version of Xen is just plain out nasty.
So my question: Is there a way under VMware Converter to change a Oracle VM format into an OVF/OVA without having to do the old intermediary Virtual Box conversion steps (i.e. How do I convert VirtualBox files to work with VMWare Workstation? - TechRepublic)?
vif = ['mac=00:21:f6:01:00:04,bridge=10c3a851b1', 'mac=00:21:f6:01:00:05,bridge=10c3a851b1']
OVM_simple_name = 'jxappvtxq001'
disk = ['file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb0000030000cae72a692fd2ee21/VirtualDisks/0004fb0000120000ac64aa852f59979a.img,xvda,w', 'file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb0000030000cae72a692fd2ee21/VirtualDisks/0004fb0000120000bbf0792baf175fa3.img,xvdb,w']
bootargs = ''
uuid = '0004fb00-0006-0000-262b-2ab85dc66b61'
on_reboot = 'restart'
cpu_weight = 27500
OVM_os_type = 'Oracle Linux 5'
cpu_cap = 0
maxvcpus = 2
OVM_high_availability = False
memory = 4096
OVM_description = ''
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_crash = 'restart'
bootloader = '/usr/bin/pygrub'
guest_os_type = 'linux'
name = '0004fb0000060000262b2ab85dc66b61'
vfb = ['type=vnc,vncunused=1,vnclisten=127.0.0.1,keymap=en-us']
vcpus = 2
OVM_cpu_compat_group = ''
OVM_domain_type = 'xen_pvm'