If you created a catalog in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension and uploaded media files to the catalog, you can add the catalog to the libraries of VMware Cloud Director. When you import a catalog to VMware Cloud Director, organization users can work with the catalog contents directly in VMware Cloud Director.

When you add a catalog from VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension to VMware Cloud Director, you create a catalog in VMware Cloud Director that contains all objects stored in the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension catalog.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have the required set of rights to import catalogs to VMware Cloud Director.
  • As an organization administrator, you have all required VMware Cloud Director rights to manage catalogs.
  • As an organization user, verify that you have the following rights assigned to your user account in VMware Cloud Director:
    • Catalog: Create / Delete a Catalog
    • Organization vDC: View
    • Organization vDC Network: View Properties

Procedure

  1. Log in to the VMware Cloud Director tenant portal.
  2. From the More drop-down menu, select Object Storage.
  3. In the Catalogs pane, click the name of the catalog that you want to import and click Add to libraries.
  4. (Optional) Change the catalog name.
    The name that you enter is used as the catalog name in VMware Cloud Director.
  5. To start the process, click Add to libraries.

Results

After the task completes, you can start using the objects in the VMware Cloud Director tenant portal.