Tom Fojta wrote a great blog post about the new capability in vCloud Director 8.10 to import running VMs into vCloud Director. This is a huge asset in migration scenarios where customers can't afford outages when being migrated into the vCD environment. Unfortunately the API syntax to actually initiate the import is a …

Sometimes you just need to create a new vApp with no contents at all - maybe for testing, or maybe you want to populate it with VMs built 'from scratch' rather than cloned from templates. This is easy to do in the vCloud Director web UI - you just skip the addition of any VM templates or new VMs and can easily create …