Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- vCloud Air - Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand User's Guide
- Contents
- About This User's Guide
- Introducing Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Navigating Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Overview
- Overview of Storage Tiers
- vApp Overview
- End User Virtual Machine Access
- Sort and View Virtual Machines
- Create a Virtual Machine from a Template
- Create a Virtual Machine Without Using a Template
- Virtual Machine Power Operations
- Edit Virtual Machine Properties
- Adjust Virtual Machine Resources
- Add a Disk to a Virtual Machine
- Set Storage and Runtime Leases for a vApp
- Manage Virtual Machine Properties in vCloud Director
- Connect a Virtual Machine to a Network
- Change Network Assignments for a Virtual Machine
- Connect a Virtual Machine to the Internet
- Log Into a Virtual Machine Guest OS with the Console
- Virtual Machine Monitoring
- Work with Virtual Machine Snapshots
- Managing Your Public Cloud Environment
- Capacity for Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Geographical Locations
- About Gateways and Networks
- Virtual Data Center Overview
- Create a Virtual Data Center
- Edit or Delete a Virtual Data Center
- Virtual Data Center Permissions
- Catalogs and Templates Overview
- Manage Catalogs in vCloud Director
- Role-based User Account Management
- Add a User to Your Service
- Edit User Details
- Delete a User from Your Service
- Reset a User's Password
- Managing User Groups
- Metering Resource Usage
- Index
Create a Virtual Machine Without Using a Template
If you do not want to create a virtual machine based on a template in Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, you
can create an original virtual machine in vCloud Director. You must first create a new vApp.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the location where you want to create the virtual machine:
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Service: From the Home page, select the service where you want to create the virtual machine.
NOTE Perform this step only if you have more than one service for
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand. See “Service Initialization and Home Page,” on page 15 for
information.
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Location: From the drop-down menu above the tabs, select the location where you want to create
the virtual machine.
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Virtual Data Center: If necessary, click the expand icon ( ) to display the Virtual Data Centers
pane and select the virtual data center where you want to create the virtual machine.
A virtual machine cannot span services, locations, or virtual data centers.
2 From the Virtual Machines tab, click New Virtual Machine.
The New Virtual Machine two-step wizard appears.
3 Click Create My Virtual Machine from Scratch.
You are taken directly to the vApp Quick Access page in vCloud Director.
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Click the Build New vApp icon ( ) and follow the steps to configure the vApp and its virtual
machines.
For information see Create a New vApp in the vCloud Director documentation.
NOTE When creating a vApp using the New vApp wizard (Configure Resources step) in
vCloud Director, you select a default storage policy (SSD-Accelerated, Standard, or both) for the vApp.
However, this default storage policy does not impact the storage tier utilized by the new virtual
machine in Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand. To allocate storage for the new virtual machine, see
“Adjust Virtual Machine Resources,” on page 37 and “Add a Disk to a Virtual Machine,” on page 38.
What to do next
Manage your new virtual machine as required in Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand.
Virtual Machine Power Operations
The power options for virtual machines work with VMware Tools to control the behavior of the various
power options that can be performed on a virtual machine.
The following power states are available from the virtual machines list for your virtual machines.
Table 3‑1. Description of Power Options for Virtual Machines
Power State Description
Power On Equal to powering on a physical machine.
Power Off Equal to powering off a physical machine
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