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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
Procedure
1 Click Administration.
2 In the left pane, select Settings > Email.
3 Under SMTP Server, if you select Set organization SMTP server, type your SMTP server name (DNS
name or IP address) and the port.
4 If your server requires authentication, select Requires authentication.
5 Under Notification Settings, if you select Set organization notification settings, type the sender's email
address, an email subject prefix, and to whom you want the system notification to be sent.
6 (Optional) Type the destination email address and click Test Email Settings.
7 Click Apply.
Modify Your Organization's Policies
You can review and modify the default policies that were set by the system administrator when your
organization was created.
You are an organization administrator.
Procedure
1 Click Administration.
2 In the left pane, select Settings > Policies.
3 Under Leases, use the drop-down menus to set the maximum period before vApps and vApp templates
expire.
4 Using the Storage cleanup drop-down menus, select whether you want to move the object to the Expired
Items page or permanently delete it.
5 Under Quotas, define how many virtual machines a user in your organization can store and power on a
vDC.
The default selection is Unlimited.
6 Under Limits, set a variety of limits, such as the number of simultaneous connections per virtual machine.
The default selection is Unlimited.
7 Click Apply.
Your policies for your organization are set.
Enable Guest Personalization in Your Organization
You can enable guest personalization for the virtual machines that are created in your organization.
You are an organization administrator.
Procedure
1 Click Administration.
2 In the left pane, select Settings > Guest Personalization.
3 Select the Enable domain join for virtual machines in this organization.
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