Thanks for taking time for responding, @arik. "you didn't elaborate on what doesn't work for you using Ansible" - I have no issues creating a template using ansible. I have not raised an ansible issue in particular. "I suppose the ability to export a template as an OVA is missing, right?" - Not exactly. My requirement is to make a template available from one ovirt cluster to another ovirt cluster that are not connected. I have elaborated how I am doing it currently (which is highly manual). " export the VM to an OVA" - I do this using the ovirt_termplate ansible module. However, you can do this only to a hosted storage within the cluster. "4. import the OVA as a template (see "Import external ova template" in the documentation of ovirt_template_module)" - I have been using the 'ovirt_template' ansible module for the past couple of months. I have not figured out how I could import an OVA template from a node. For example, if I manage to copy the template to one of the cluster nodes (say, node2.my.ovirt.cluster:/tmp/ova_template/my_template.ova), I could not work out hos to import this OVA into my cluster. Do you have some sample code, if this is easy enough? Thanks You have