

Now that we have our OVA, we can deploy that to our VMware cluster. The file is relatively small (about 514 MB), so is quick to download and deploy. If you don’t want to search, here is the direct link to the.

I tend to use the LTS images of Ubuntu for stability and support and the latest LTS release is 20.04, for which the cloud images can be accessed here:

The Ubuntu Cloud Image is a prepackaged virtual machine template provided as an Open Virtualization Appliance (or. So if you prefer to do it that way, head over to that post and continue from there. In this earlier post I have shown the steps on how to create a Ubuntu VM using the standard ISO image. However, some of these features are also available to your own datacenter and in this post I will touch on using the Ubuntu Cloud Image as a template in VMware. When working in the Public Cloud, one of the nice things is that you have all the VM templates available and you can quickly deploy them and start building what ever you want on top of those.
