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Administrators whose role is defined as a global permissions can see and manage the libraries in all

vCenter Server instances that belong to the global root.

Because content libraries and their children items inherit permissions only from the global root object, when

you navigate to a library or a library item and click Manage tab, you can see there is no Permissions tab. An

Administrator cannot assign individual permissions on different libraries or different items within a library.

Sample User Role for Working with Content Libraries

vSphere Web Client provides a sample role that lets you be an administrator of content libraries. You can

modify the role or use it as an example to create custom roles for specific tasks you want to allow other users

to perform.

Content Library Administrator

Content Library Administrator role is a predefined role that gives a user privileges to monitor and manage a

library and its contents.

A user who has this role can perform the following tasks:

Create, edit, and delete local or subscribed libraries.

Synchronize a subscribed library and synchronize items in a subscribed library.

View the item types supported by the library.

Configure the global settings for the library.

Import items to a library.

Export library items.

Populating Libraries with Content

You can populate a content library with OVF templates that you can use to provision new virtual machines.

You can also add other files to a content library such as ISO images, scripts, and text files.

There are multiple ways to populate a library with items.

Importing Items to a Content Library on page 79

You can import items such as VM templates and vApps to a content library from your local machine

or from a Web server, and use them to create virtual machines and vApps. You can also import ISO

images, certificates, and other files, which you want to keep in the library and share with other users

across multiple vCenter Server systems.

Clone a vApp to a Template in Content Library on page 80

You can clone existing vApps to vApp templates in a content library. You can use the vApp templates

later to provision new vApps on a cluster or a host in your vSphere inventory. The vApp is exported

to a content library in the OVF format.

Clone a Virtual Machine or a VM Template to a Template in Content Library on page 80

You can clone existing virtual machines or VM templates to templates in the content library, and use

them later to provision virtual machines on a cluster or a host.

Clone Library Items from One Library to Another Library on page 81

You can clone a template from one content library to another in the same vCenter Server instance. The

cloned template is an exact copy of the original template.

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