Download a vApp Template Using Your VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal

You can download a vApp template from a catalog as an OVA file to your local machine.

Note: Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.4.2, you can create, copy, and edit VMs and vApps with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices. However, you cannot download vApp templates that have VMs with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices when the templates were captured with the Copy option for TPM Provisioning. If a template is captured with the Replace option for TPM Provisioning, you can download the template, and the OVF file has a virtualHardwareSection with a TPM RASD section for the VMs with TPM devices.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are logged in as a Catalog Author or a role with equivalent set of rights.

Procedure

1. In the top navigation bar, click Content Hub and in the left panel, select Content > vApp Templates.
   The list of templates appears in a grid view.
2. Click the radio button next to the vApp template you want to download, and click Download.
   Note: You can download vApp templates from your organization catalogs. If you are an organization administrator, you can download vApp templates from a public catalog. Otherwise, the Download button is dimmed.
3. (Optional) To preserve the UUIDs and MAC addresses of the virtual machines in the downloaded OVA package, select the Preserve identity information check box.
4. Click OK and wait for the download to complete.
   The OVA file is saved to the default download location of your Web browser.