Today, I was trying to export a virtual appliance from the ESXi Server Failed to Export Virtual Appliance: An item with the same key has already been added error messages. So, I went on searching the VMware Communities to look for some solutions. To my surprise, I discovered that we can’t export the appliance that is in snapshot state. And, I have to consolidate the snapshot states by removing all other snapshots… then the export feature starts to work now!! I am just wondering.. wouldn’t it be great if we can export it with all the snapshots too? On the second thought… Probably not, as that’s not the purpose of Virtual Appliance.
Failed to Export Virtual Appliance: An item with the same key has already been added
November 17, 2008 by Alex Ho
Great info ! I was trying to export an Virual Applicance and had the same message. Removing the snapshot could effectively solve the problem. Thanks.
Thanks! You would think the error message would be a little more helpful! Deleted the snapshot and that fixed it…
It is also possible to browse the datastore and download the VM including snapshots