2.9.2 vCloud Connector
vCloud Connector supports migration of VMs, vApps, and templates between the VMware vCloud Air IaaS and other vSphere or vCloud Director environments, such as data centers or vCloud Air evaluation environments. Export, transport, and import can use vCloud Connector or Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF).
These migration capabilities support onboarding to the VMware Cloud Provider Program IaaS, export from the service offering, and synchronization of templates between the VMware Cloud Provider Program IaaS and on-premises data centers.
In addition to the basic network-based copy operation of VMs, vApps, and templates between vSphere, vCloud Director, the VMware Cloud Provider, and vCloud Air IaaS, vCloud Connector also supports the following use cases:
• Extend a single Layer 2 network from your private vSphere and vCloud Director environments to a VMware Cloud Provider Program vCloud Director based cloud so you can migrate VMs or vApps to the cloud while retaining the same IP and MAC address. This allows the VMs or vApps to communicate with other virtual machines or vApps in the private vSphere or vCloud Director environments.
• Synchronize your VMware Cloud Provider catalog with your private vSphere folder or vCloud Director catalog so that all authorized users of your private vSphere or vCloud Director and the VMware Cloud Provider use the same templates.