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Creating a Published Catalog 4
You can publish a catalog to make a set of vApp templates or media files available to all of the organizations
in a vCloud Director installation.
Organizations use catalogs to store vApp templates and media files. The members of an organization can use
catalog items as the building blocks to create their own vApps.
When you publish a catalog, the items in the catalog become available to all of the organizations in the vCloud
Director installation. The administrators of each organization can then choose which catalog items to provide
to their users.
Before you can create a published catalog, you must create and provision an organization to contain the catalog.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Enable Catalog Publishing,” on page 41
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“Create a Published Catalog,” on page 42
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“Upload a vApp Template,” on page 42
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“Import a vApp Template from vSphere,” on page 43
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“Upload a Media File,” on page 43
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“Import a Media File from vSphere,” on page 44
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“Publish a Catalog,” on page 44
Enable Catalog Publishing
Before you can publish an organization's catalogs, you must enable catalog publishing for the organization.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Properties.
3 On the Catalog Publishing tab, select Allow publishing catalogs to all organizations and click OK.
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