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Working With Catalogs 4
You can create a catalog to make a set of vApp templates or media files available to organizations in a single
vCloud Director installation or to organizations across multiple vCloud Director installations.
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 share a catalog, the items in the catalog become available to all or selected organizations in the
vCloud Director installation. The administrators of each organization can then choose which catalog items
to provide to their users.
When you publish a catalog for external organizations to use, the items in the catalog become available to
organizations across multiple vCloud Director installations. For an organization outside the vCloud Director
installation to access an externally published catalog, the organization must subscribe to the catalog.
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 Sharing, Publishing, and Subscription,” on page 39
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“Create a Catalog,” on page 40
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“Upload a vApp Template,” on page 41
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“Import a vApp Template from vSphere,” on page 42
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“Upload a Media File,” on page 42
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“Import a Media File from vSphere,” on page 43
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“Share a Catalog,” on page 43
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“Publish a Catalog to External Organizations,” on page 44
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“Subscribe to an External Catalog Feed,” on page 44
Enable Catalog Sharing, Publishing, and Subscription
Before you can share or publish an organization's catalogs, you must enable catalog sharing or publishing
for the organization. Before you can subscribe to external organization's catalogs, you must enable
subscription to external catalogs.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Properties.
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