About VMware Content Libraries
Content libraries are container objects for VM templates and other types of files. You can create and manage a content library from a single VMware vCenter server instance. You can also share library templates to other VMware vCenter instances if HTTP(s) traffic is enabled between them.
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VMware content library discovery is only supported for VMware vCenter version 6.0 or later. |
Cisco UCS Director lets you discover and view reports for the following types of content libraries
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Local library - You can use a local library to store items in a single VMware vCenter instance. You can publish the local library so that users from other systems can subscribe to the library and access the available templates.
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Subscribed library - You can subscribe to a published local library. You must synchronize subscribed libraries to access their contents and available templates. Automatic synchronization is performed at regular intervals in VMware vCenter.
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To perform content library inventory discovery, the Cisco UCS Director and VMware vCenter systems must have the same NTP server configured. If Cisco UCS Director or VMware vCenter systems or both have multi-node setup, then the same NTP server configuration should be done across all the nodes. |
You can use the templates in content libraries to deploy virtual machines across VMware vCenter servers.
See Creating Catalogs for Content Library-Based VM Provisioning.