Content Library

[bill-rich]

Adding support for content library as a resource, data source, and clone source for virtual machines.

[koikonom]

The code changes are minor (just a couple of typos and a documentation improvement).

I have a question though. I see that in order to create a content library we need to pass a datastore and these are datacenter specific. The data resource on the other hand (as well as the underlying code all the way down to the point we call vmomi) does not seem to be looking for a datacenter.

Are content library names global, regardless of their location ? Or should we account for the case where we have two content libraries with the same name backed on different datacenters, or even on the same DC but with different backing datastores.

[bill-rich]

Content Libraries are at the vCenter level, so they're above datacenters in the tree. The naming thing is kind of an odd one. You can have two Content Libraries with the same name, but the GetLibraryByName function in govmomi returns the first one it comes accross with a matching name. We could use one of the listing functions to get the whole list back and filter by other criteria, but I think the use case of multiple libraries with the same name is going to be pretty uncommon.

[koikonom]

+1

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