Reply To: Unable to Convert VMWare File to AWS

Answer:
1. download the VM for VMware by clicking on the “for VMWare” button
2. use 7zip or other tool to extract the “HDP_2.2_VMware_RC12-disk1.vmdk” from Sandbox_HDP_2.2_VMware.ova
3. use the ec2-import-instance command to import the VMDK file. Here is the example command:
ec2-import-instance HDP_2.2_VMware_RC12-disk1.vmdk -f VMDK -t m3.xlarge -a x86_64 -p Linux -b <s3-bucket-name> -o <access-key> -w <secret-key> -O <access-key> -W <secret-key> –region <region-name>