The Content Library Service provides means for managing content libraries in the context of a single or multiple vCenter Server instances deployed in your virtual environment. You can use the vCloud Suite APIs to access the Content Library Service through the vCloud Suite Endpoint.
Administrators can use content libraries to share VM templates, vApp templates, and other types of files across vCenter Server instances in the virtual environment. Sharing templates across your virtual environment promotes consistency, compliance, efficiency, and automation in deploying workloads at scale.
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| A content library instance represents a container for a set of library items. A content library item instance represents the logical object stored in the content library, which might be one or more usable files. |
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| You can create queries to find libraries that match your criteria. You can also retrieve a list of all libraries or only the libraries of a specific type. |
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| The Content Library API provides services that allow you to create and manage content libraries programmatically. You can create a local library and publish it for the entire virtual environment. You can also subscribe to use the contents of a local library and enable automatic synchronization to ensure that you have the latest content. |
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| A library item groups multiple files within one logical unit. You can perform various tasks with the items in a content library. |