Simple PowerCLI Backup for OVA/OVF

• Before performing this process, make sure you have your VM CD-Rom not pointing to a datastore and pointed to the “Client Device” and have the CD Rom disconnected. Having the CD-Rom pointed to a datastore can cause problems.
• Open PowerShell ISE in Administrator Mode
•  Open the "Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1 script located at C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\PowerCLI\Scripts
•  This will be here after you installed PowerCLI
• In order to get the Power CLI to connect to servers on the network, you have to bypass the certificate error by putting in the following code:
•  Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore
•  Then you can connect to your server with the following command:
•   Connect-VIServer -Server x.x.x.x -User vsphere.local\example - Password XXXXXXX
• Once this is done, you can now start your exporting of your OVA/OVF with the next steps.
•  Make sure you know your destination folder and the name of your VM from vCenter. Once you have this, perform the following command:
•  Get-VM –Name ExampleTest | Export-VApp –Destination C:\Users\Example\Desktop –Format Ovf or ova