Modifying existing catalog items

[qc4vmware]

Once a vApp is saved to the catalog there appears to be no way of editing it. In order to do this I need to create a vApp based on the catalog item, modify it, then save it back into the catalog. I am finding this pretty frustrating. Does anyone else share my frustration? Am I missing something simple somewhere that would allow me to do this?

[admin]

Catalog items, whether vApps or media, are designed to be immutable. Only meta data of the vapp (e.g., vapp name, customization settings) can be changed. VMs inside the vapp and their meta data cannot be modified.

The worflow that you mentioned in your post (creating a vApp in your cloud and then modifying it) is the only way to "modify" an existing template item. I put modify in quotes because you essentially make a new item and delete the old one.

[qc4vmware]

I think this behavior should be changed. This could be a very time consuming process on a large vApp with many individual virtual machines. I should be able to take a catalog item offline or put it into maintenance mode or something of that nature, fire it up to modify the contents of the vms if needed, modify attributes of the vApp, then save and unlock the image.

[cvbarney]

This is still the case with vCD 1.5? I was looking for a solution to easely change/update an VM within an catalog template, but it seems still not possible to do that. Only the way as mentioned above by qc4vmware?!

[admin]

Catalog items are still essentially immutable.

[jake_robinson_b]

Can you give an example of the changes or modifications you would be making?

[guitzer]

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