Ammending my post: i tried to extract the ova file, but this fails like this: # tar xvf VM0001.ova vm.ovf 3223a5b9-275f-4ecc-a221-795f675e667e tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: rmtlseek not stopped at a record boundary tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The result still is: # ls -al total 20064272 drwxr-xr-x. 2 vdsm kvm 4096 Jun 22 20:52 . dr-xr-xr-x. 21 root root 4096 Jun 22 20:45 .. -rw-------. 1 root root 10272886272 Jun 22 20:52 3223a5b9-275f-4ecc-a221-795f675e667e -rw-r--r--. 1 vdsm kvm 10272899072 Jun 21 21:13 VM0001.ova -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 11469 May 30 19:07 vm.ovf Disk space is sufficient, with double the capacity of the uncompressed VM size... It starts to turn into a bit of a nightmare: 1) Importing the VM from OVA fails like described above 2) Attempting to import the "Export"-storage domain of the previous oVirt 4.3.3.1 installation where i had exportet the VM to failed, as tthere is no storage domain recognized 3) Attempting to import the iSCSI-based "Data"-domain of that same previous cluster fails, due to the folloing error: "Error while executing action: Cannot add Storage. The Storage Domain name is already in use." The iSCSI-LUN is not connected to any other initiator. The hosts which belonged to the former oVirt cluster are erased or offline... As i still have all the sSCSI-LUNs, is there any option left to get hold of that VirtualMachine? It's not just this machine, but also wondering how to prepare for the next time i have to migrate the cluster... Any suggestion on how to proceed best is highly welcome ;-)