Logged a call with VMware and they came back saying we couldn't downgrade an OVF of ESX5 to run on out ESXi4 vSphere environment. Of course I didn't get their response until the next day. And by then I had it working. I'm sure they'd say this solution isn't supported, but it works for me. As it's making copies of the original OVF files, I can't see any harm in giving it a try:
1. Download & install ovftool then run:
#ovftool virtual-appliance.ovf virtual-appliance.vmx (to inflate the vmx, vmdk, etc.)
2. Download and install VMware Converter Standalone (I grabbed the latest version as of this post, which is 5.0.1 build-875114).
(choose the advanced install option)
That's it. This version of the VM Hardware is 7, which is ideal for our ESX4 environment. Job Done.
In the process of researching this, I saw how powerful ovftool is, but couldn't get it working with these OVA files as some folks.
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