Publish a Catalog in the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal

If the system administrator has granted you catalog access, you can publish a catalog externally to make its vApp templates and media files available for subscription by organizations outside the VMware Cloud Director installation.

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 the system administrator enabled external catalog publishing for the organization and granted you catalog access.

Procedure

1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Content Hub and from the secondary navigation panel, select Catalogs.
   The list of catalogs appears in a grid view.
2. Click the vertical ellipsis () on the left of the catalog you want to publish, and select Configure Publishing.
3. Select Enable Publishing and, optionally, enter a password for catalog access.
   You must enter only ASCII characters.
4. (Optional) To optimize synchronization and store the published catalogs at the transfer server storage location, click Enable early catalog export to optimize synchronization.
   This option requires more storage.
5. (Optional) To include BIOS UUIDs and MAC addresses in the downloaded OVF package, click Preserve identity information.
6. Click Save.