Possible to share public catalog accross multiple Provider Vdc

[fartman]

Hi would it be possible to share public catalog accross multiple Provider Vdc on Vcentre 1.5?

[rbudavari]

Yes - Published catalogs are shared with all organizations regardless of which Provider VDC is backing their resources.

Although there are some specific considerations if these PvDCs are supported by different vCenter Servers.

[cfor]

A setting at the org level needs to be enabled to allow for an org to share catalog content with other organizations.  Once that is enabled you can "Publish" the catalog to all orgs.  Once this is done other org administrators will be able to see this new catalog content.

If the backing VM's for this catalog content are on storage not directly accessible by the destinations provider VDC vCloud will need to make a copy of the data (even if fast provision is enabled).  The copy in many cases will attempt to use ESX to ESX host copy, but sometimes the cell transfer space will need to be used (to cross vCenters).

[fartman]

thks for the info but what if the datastore containing the templates are not presented to the other Provider vDc can we still share ?

[admin]

Yes, you can. The first provision to a pVDC will take longer than usual because it's going to have to copy the full thing from the source pVDC to the destination pVDC. After that provisioning will be faster as the template will have been shadowed to the destination pVDC.

[essentian]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but could you elaborate on what these considerations would be?

[IamTHEvilONE]

making sure that the NFS transfer folder mounted to all cells actually has enough space to spool an export of the vApp going between.  so make sure that your transfer rates are pretty good, or else it'll take a while to do the export/import between two isolated vCenter instances.

[essentian]

Thanks for the clarification