By capturing a vApp, you copy all data that the vApp consumes to VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension. By capturing a vApp, you create a backup copy of the data that the vApp contains. You can later restore the vApp back to its original location or download the vApp locally for archiving purposes.

By capturing a vApp, you do not copy the storage reservation from VMware Cloud Director to VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.

You can capture up to 10 vApps simultaneously.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that you have the required set of rights to capture vApps.
    • If you are an organization administrator, you have all required VMware Cloud Director rights to manage vApps.
    • If you are an organization user, verify that you have the vApp: View VM Metrics and vApp: Download rights assigned to your user account in VMware Cloud Director.
  • Verify that the vApp you want to capture is powered off.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the VMware Cloud Director tenant portal.
  2. From the More drop-down menu, select Object Storage.
  3. In the vApps pane, click Capture from data center.
  4. Select the vApps that you want to capture and click Next.
  5. (Optional) Enter different names for the vApps and enter a description.
  6. Click Capture from data center.

Results

After the capture task completes, the captured vApps are listed in the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension tenant portal vApp list. You can share, download, delete, or restore the vApps.