{"id":24879,"date":"2018-07-19T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=24879"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:27:57","slug":"working-with-content-libraries-in-vsphere-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/working-with-content-libraries-in-vsphere-6-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with Content Libraries in vSphere 6.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24884 size-full\" title=\"content-library-01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/content-library-01.jpg\" alt=\"content-library-01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Content Library in <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/mastering-vmware-vsphere-6-5-book-2\/\">VMware vSphere 6.5<\/a> is a <strong>container object<\/strong> used to store VM templates, vApp templates, ISO files, and other files you can share within your network.<\/p>\n<p>This article has been written for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StarWind blog<\/a>\u00a0and can be found in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/blog\/working-with-content-libraries-in-vsphere-6-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this page<\/a>. The article explains the <strong>configuration and the use<\/strong> of Content Libraries as well as the <strong>syncronization procedure<\/strong> to keep the content up to date with subscribed libraries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Content Libraries benefits<\/h2>\n<p>A Content Library provides the capability of sharing VM Templates, vApps, ISOs and other files across <strong>multiple vCenter Server instances<\/strong>\u00a0<span class=\"fontstyle2\">in the <strong>same or different locations<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0ensuring compliancy and consistency\u00a0<span class=\"fontstyle2\">within the infrastructure when <strong>deploying workloads<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24885 size-full\" title=\"content-library-02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/content-library-02.jpg\" alt=\"content-library-02\" width=\"309\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VM templates, vApp templates and other type of files in a Content Library are defined as <strong>library items<\/strong> that can contain single or multiple files, such as OVF, ISO and so on.\u00a0<span class=\"fontstyle2\">If the <strong>HTTP or HTTPS traffic<\/strong> is allowed between vCenter Server instances installed in your network, <strong>library items can be shared<\/strong> to multiple vCenter Servers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/blog\/working-with-content-libraries-in-vsphere-6-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full article<\/a>\u00a0on StarWind blog.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Content Library in VMware vSphere 6.5 is a container object used to store VM templates, vApp templates, ISO files, and other files you can share within your network. This article has been written for\u00a0StarWind blog\u00a0and can be found in\u00a0this page. The article explains the configuration and the use of Content Libraries as well as the syncronization procedure to keep the content up to date with subscribed libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[1881,700],"class_list":["post-24879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-content-library","tag-vsphere-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}