An OVA is a virtual appliance compressed into a single file for ease of deployment Begin by logging into your Cisco account and downloading the ASAv OFA.
Warning: Doing what I discuss in this blog post is certainly unsupported by Cisco. Thankfully working around this if fairly straightforward if you have access to a vCenter environment to import and then export the VM from. For home labs this is going to eat up more memory and discourage some. This leaves those wishing to use the ASAv for their learning, or testing having to setup vCenter. The ASAv copes well in terms of performance and allows for yet more physical devices to be virtualized, however it only supports VMware environments that make use of vCenter.
