You can download a vApp template as an OVF package. After you find the template by browsing a catalog, you can request that the template be enabled for download.
When you enable a vApp template for download, the server performs several operations to create an OVF package and make it available to the transfer service.
After the template is enabled for download, you can retrieve it to see the download:default URL for the descriptor, then parse the descriptor to find the URLs from which you can retrieve the referenced files.
1 | Before you can download a vApp template, an administrator or privileged user must explicitly enable it for download. |
2 | To download the OVF descriptor, you make a GET request to the download:default URL in the download-enabled VappTemplate. |
3 | After you download the OVF descriptor of a vApp template, you can examine the contents of the descriptor to discover download URLs for files that the template references. |