vCloud Director Locators

The syntax for vCloud locators are the same as for other locators:

vcloud://username:password@host:port?org=name_of_org&vapp=name_of_deployed_vapp&
catalog=name_of_catalog&vappTemplate=name_of_vapp_template_in_catalog&vdc=name_of_vdc

Some of the options are not needed if there is only one virtual datacenter to choose from. If there are more than on datacenter, the catalog option is required. The org option is mandatory, because it is used to log in to vCloud Director.

Note: OVF Tool supports all source types for vCloud Director 1.5. For vCloud Director 1.0, OVF Tool only supports OVF/OVA/vCloud sources. OVF Tool does not support vi, vmx, or vapprun sources for vCloud Director 1.0.

Examples of vCloud Locators

The following example uploads and deploys an OVF named test into vCloud Director and names the vApp my_test1.

ovftool /tmp/test.ovf vcloud://user1:[email protected]:7443?org=o&vapp=my_test1

This example exports a vCloud Director vApp to the OVF file /tmp/test1.ovf

ovftool vcloud://user1:[email protected]:7443?org=o&vapp=my_test1 /tmp/test1.ovf

If you use a network, you map the network in the usual way:

--net:sourceNET=targetNET

You also apply properties in the usual way.