Caution: Articles written for technical not grammatical accuracy, If poor grammar offends you proceed with caution ;-)

There are lots of reasons to want to export and import blueprints from one vRA instance to another. My current motives are to move blueprints from my vRA 7.2 environment to my newly deployed vRA 7.3 environment. In vRA 7.3 their is a great new free feature available, the Code Stream Management Pack for IT Devops that is free. However if you are running a pre vRA 7.3 environment you may want to get that content from that environment backed up so you can use it in another instance. Cloud Client is a great option.

You can download Cloud CLient 4.4.0 here.

Connecting Cloud Client to vRA

I prefer to use an AutoLogin file to connect to vRA. To create an AutoLogin file follow the instructions below:

Launch CloudClient by going to the download folder and running either the cloudclient.bat or cloudclient.sh under the Bin folder. Run the command login autologinfile, this will create a file named Cloudclient.properties in the root CloudClient folder. Next we need to run the login keyfile command. The syntax for this command is login keyfile –password YOUR_PAS