Using ovftool to copy VM hosts

OVFTool can be used to copy VM hosts from one ESXi server to another via the CLI.

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jemurray@home-server:~$ ovftool -ds=datastore0 vi://root@192.168.86.55/VIRL vi://root@192.168.86.2
Enter login information for source vi://192.168.86.55/
Username: root
Password: *********
Opening VI source: vi://root@192.168.86.55:443/VIRL
Enter login information for target vi://192.168.86.2/
Username: root
Password: *********
Opening VI target: vi://root@192.168.86.2:443/
Deploying to VI: vi://root@192.168.86.2:443/

-ds = the destination datastore name