deploys OVA files onto ESXi with high performance

ovftool-esxi-deploy.bash

#!/bin/bash

set -e -x

images=$(ls some_directories/*.ova)
suffix="test_A"

for image in ${images}; do
    image_name=$(basename "${image}" ".ova")
    count=1
    if [[ $image =~ something_that_uses_clustering ]]; then
        count=2
    fi

    for ((i=0; $i < $count; ++i)); do
        id=$(printf "%02d" "${count}")
        name="${image_name}_${suffix}_${id}"
        ovftool \
        --lax \
        --X:logFile=ovftool.log \
        --X:logLevel=verbose \
        --acceptAllEulas \
        --compress=9 \
        --diskMode=thick \
        --ipAllocationPolicy=dhcpPolicy \
        --fencedMode=bridged \
        --powerOffSource \
        --sourceType=OVA \
        --name="${name}" \
        --datastore=Speedy \
        "${image}" \
        vi://root:password@ESXI_IP_ADDRESS
    done
done