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4 (Optional) Select configuration data that you want to include in the template.
You can select to preserve the MAC-addresses on the network adapters and include extra configuration.
5 Click OK.
A new task for exporting an OVF package appears in the Recent Tasks pane. After the task is complete, the
template appears in the Templates tab of the Related Objects tab for the content library.
What to do next
Use the template to create virtual machines on hosts or clusters in the vSphere inventory.
Clone Library Items from One Library to Another Library
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.
When cloning a template between libraries, in the clone wizard you can select the source library to also be a
destination library.
A subscribed library can be the source of an item you want to clone, but you cannot clone items to a
subscribed library. The subscribed libraries are filtered out from the list with destination libraries in the
Clone Library Item dialog box. When the source library of an item you want to clone is a subscribed library
with the setting to download items only when needed, the item is first downloaded to the source subscribed
library and then cloned to the destination library.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web Client navigator, select vCenter Inventory Lists > Content Libraries.
2 Select a content library and click the Related Objects tab.
3 Right-click a library item and select Clone Item.
4 (Optional) Change the name and notes for the item you clone.
5 From the list of content libraries, select the library in which you want to clone the template.
You can select the destination library to be the same as the source library if you want to have identical
copy of the template in the same library.
6 Click OK.
A new task for cloning the template appears in the Recent Tasks pane. After the task is complete, a clone of
the template appears on the Templates tab under the Related objects tab of the destination content library.
What to do next
Deploy a virtual machine from template on a host or a cluster in your vSphere inventory.
Working with Items in a Library
You can perform various tasks with the items in a content library. You can synchronize an item from a
subscribed library to download all its contents and use the item to deploy a virtual machine for example.
You can delete items you no longer need to use, and so on.
Each VM template, vApp template, or another type of file in a library is a library item. An item can contain a
single file or multiple files. In the case of VM and vApp templates, each item contains multiple files. For
example, because an OVF template is a set of multiple files, when you upload an OVF template to the
library, you actually upload all the files associated with the template (.ovf, .vmdk, and .mf), but in the
vSphere Web Client you see listing only of the .ovf file in the content library.
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