You can subscribe to an external catalog and thus create a read-only copy of an externally published catalog. You cannot modify a subscribed catalog.

Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.4.2, you can create, copy, and edit VMs with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices. There are certain considerations that you must take into account when working with vApp templates.
  • When the vApp templates in the catalog have TPM devices, and the templates were captured with the Copy option for TPM Provisioning, you cannot publish the vApp templates and they are not available for synchronization.
  • When the vApp templates in the catalog have TPM devices, and the templates were captured with the Replace option for TPM Provisioning, you can publish the vApp templates and they are available for synchronization. When you instantiate such vApp templates, the VMs with TPM devices get new TPM devices during the instantiation.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that you are logged in as an organization administrator or a role with equivalent set of rights.

  • The system administrator must grant your organization permission to subscribe to external catalogs.
  • If you are using SSL, you can test the connection to the subscription URL and establish a trust relationship. See Test the VMware Cloud Director Connection to a Remote Server and Establish a Trust Relationship Using the Tenant Portal.

  • If there are VMs with TPM devices in the templates within a catalog, verify that your VMware Cloud Director version is 10.4.2 or later.

    If the VMware Cloud Director version of the subscriber is 10.4.1 or earlier, the templates do not contain TPM devices.

Procedure

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Content Hub and in the left panel, select Catalogs.
    The list of catalogs appears in a grid view.
  2. Click New to create a new catalog.
  3. Enter the name and, optionally, a description of the catalog.
  4. Select to subscribe to an external catalog and provide the subscription URL.
  5. Enter the optional password to access the catalog.
  6. Select whether you want to automatically download the content from the external catalog.
  7. Click OK.