Open Virtual Appliance, a VM packaged as a single file; the Azure Migrate appliance for VMware is shipped this way, for example.
Also called Open Virtual Appliance.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains OVA in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Azure Migrate appliance
Discovery VM run on premises and registered to exactly one Azure Migrate project; it is deployed from a Hyper-V VHD, a VMware OVA or an installer script, finds servers without agents and collects the performance data that assessments draw on.