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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director User's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Understanding VMware Cloud Director
- Managing Users and Groups
- Using the Resources Available to Your Organization
- Working in an Organization
- Set Up an Organization
- Review Your Organization Profile
- Modify Your Email Settings
- Modify Your Organization's Policies
- Enable Guest Personalization in Your Organization
- Manage Users and Groups in Your Organization
- Manage Resources in Your Organization
- Manage Virtual Machines in Your Organization
- Viewing Organization Log Tasks and Events
- Working with Catalogs
- Working with Media Files
- Working with vApp Templates
- Open a vApp Template
- Add a vApp Template to My Cloud
- Download a vApp Template
- Upload an OVF Package as a vApp Template
- Resume the Upload of a vApp Template
- Add a vApp Template from a Catalog
- Copy a vApp Template to a Published Catalog
- Move a vApp Template to a Published Catalog
- Delete a vApp Template
- Save a vApp as a vApp Template
- Modify vApp Template Properties
- Working with vApps
- Add a vApp From a Catalog in Your Organization
- Create a New vApp
- Understanding vApps
- Working with Networks in a vApp
- Copy a vApp Template and Save it as a vApp
- Edit vApp Properties
- Delete a vApp
- Start a vApp
- Start a vApp with an Older Version of VMware Tools
- Stop a vApp
- Suspend a vApp
- Discard the Suspended State of a vApp
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Share a vApp
- Power on and Force Recustomization of a Virtual Machine
- Save vApp as a vApp Template to Your Catalog
- Change the Owner of a vApp
- Copy a vApp to Another vDC
- Move a vApp to Another vDC
- Delete Virtual Machines from a vApp
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Open a Virtual Machine Console
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Discard the Suspended State of a Virtual Machine
- Insert a CD/DVD
- Eject a CD/DVD
- Insert a Floppy
- Eject a Floppy
- Copy or Move a Virtual Machine to a vApp
- Delete a Virtual Machine
- Managing Your Virtual Machines
- Installing VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools in a New Virtual Machine with No Guest Operating System
- Installing VMware Tools in a vApp
- Install VMware Tools in a Virtual Machine in a vApp
- Install VMware Tools in a vApp Template
- Install VMware Tools With Guest Customization Disabled
- Upgrade VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools on a Windows Guest
- Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest in X with the RPM Installer
- Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the Tar Installer or RPM Installer
- Install VMware Tools on a Solaris Guest
- Guest Operating System Support
- Install a Guest Operating System
- Customizing Your Guest Operating System
- Understanding Guest Customization
- Customizing a Guest OS When Saving a vApp Template as a vApp
- Enable or Disable Guest Customization
- Change Guest Customization Settings for Virtual Machines in a vApp Template
- Customize Your Windows NT vApp Template
- Customize Your Solaris vApp Template
- Upload a Customization Script
- Reset Your Virtual Machine's Password
- Domain Join Requirements for Windows
- Join a Windows Guest Domain During Guest Operating System Personalization
- Guest Operating System Support
- Index
3 Select the Internet content zone for the Cloud Director server.
4 Click Custom Level and select Enable or Prompt for these options.
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Download signed ActiveX controls
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Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins
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Allow META REFRESH
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Active scripting of Microsoft web browser control
5 Click OK.
6 Click the Advanced tab.
7 If you are using Internet Explorer on Windows 2003, complete these tasks.
a Select Start > Settings > Control Panel.
b Select Add or Remove Programs.
c Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
d Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration.
You can display Cloud Director correctly in Internet Explorer.
Bypass the Proxy in Internet Explorer
You can configure the Internet Explorer proxy server to bypass certain Web addresses.
If all of these conditions exist, you can configure Internet Explorer to bypass specific Web addresses.
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The internal network is configured with a proxy server to access the external network.
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The browser's proxy server connection has no local exceptions.
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The proxy is not configured to look in the internal network after not finding or connecting to the target
on the external network.
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The user looks for a target on the internal network using Internet Explorer.
Procedure
1 Type the IP address of the cell or load balancer so that VMware Remote Console (VMRC) can bypass the
proxy setting.
2 Select Tools > Internet Options.
3 On the Connections tab, click LAN Settings in the bottom panel.
4 In the Proxy Server panel, click Advanced.
5 In the Exception panel, in the Do not use proxy server for addresses beginning with: text box, type the
IP address of the cell or load balancer.
If the configuration management vehicle supports the use of regular expressions, you must type the DNS
name of the cell or load balancer.
6 Click OK.
The specified Web addresses are bypassed by the Internet Explorer proxy server.
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