4.3.4.2 vCloud Connector ODT Service Provider Steps
The service provider instance of the vCloud Connector is used to initiate the copy process from the vCloud Connector Node mounted NFS drive and volume. vCloud Connector then posts the VMs to the specified vCenter Server datastore and uses the stored key to decrypt the data, and using the stored credentials, finally posts to the Org catalog. An exception to this data flow is that templates consisting of multiple VMs with the deploy flag unchecked (as shown in
Figure 19) are posted directly to vCloud Director.
Figure 26. vCloud Connector Service Provider Import
The service provider mounts the same NFS share on the shipped drive to the vCloud Connector node.
Figure 27. vCenter Server Credentials Supporting vCloud Director Org VDC
These credentials do not leave the vCloud Connector system and are encrypted before being stored.
Figure 28. vCenter Server Target Datastore
Figure 29. Verification of Details
Figure 30. vCloud Connector Tasks View
It is important that the ownership of resulting imported entities is changed to that of the Organization Administrator because they are created with the vCloud Director system administrator. After this step is done, notify the customer that their import is complete, and have them verify the import. After it is confirmed, recycle resources for use in another instance of the ODT process.
