vSphere 6.0 Multi-­‐Site Content Library – Provides simple and effective management for VM templates, vApps, ISO images and scripts for vSphere Admins – collectively called “content” – that can be synchronized across sites and vCenter Servers.

Multi-­‐Site Content Library in Enterprise Plus only; Enterprise, Standard - n/a

vSphere allows you to create and deploy multi-tiered application in a packaged approach using vApps.

A vApp is a container that can contain one or more virtual machines alongside meta data describing the relationship and configuration settings for the components of the vApp. A vApp can powered on and power off, and can also be cloned. The distribution format for a vApp is OVF.
While you can not create vApp templates in vCenter as such, you can export and import a vApp as OVF template.

vCloud Director (fee based) uses vApps as the default deployment container and you can create vApp templates, vApps are created by deploying the template to the cloud for organization for which the template was created.
- vCloud Director 5.5 provides the ability to clone a powered-on or suspended vApp, including capturing the memory state of the virtual machines, and to save this clone to the catalog.
- vCloud Director prior to 5.5. required that users create a vApp template in the catalog prior to instantiating the vApp in the VDC. vCD 5.5 enables users to import and export vApps directly to and from the VDC without the need for an intermediate vApp template in the catalog
- vCloud Director 5.5 adds support for importing and exporting vApps using the OVA file format.