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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
6 Select an access level for each user or group.
Option Description
Full control
This user can open, modify, and change the sharing of a catalog.
Read/write
n
This user can only open, change the catalog name, and publish the
catalog.
n
This user can delete vApp templates and media files in a catalog.
Read only
The user only has read access to a catalog.
7 Click OK and OK again.
Your catalog is shared with other users or groups in your organization.
Change the Owner of a Catalog
You can change the ownership of a catalog. You cannot delete a user who owns a catalog.
You are an organization administrator.
Procedure
1 Click Catalogs.
2 In the left pane, double-click My Organization's Catalogs.
3 Select a catalog, right-click, and select Change Owner.
4 Select a user from the list or search for one.
You can search for a user by full name or their user name.
5 Click OK.
Your catalog has a new owner.
Delete a Catalog
You can delete a catalog from your organization.
You are at least a catalog author.
Prerequisites
You have moved the objects in your catalog to another catalog.
Procedure
1 Click Catalogs.
2 In the left pane, click My Organization's Catalogs.
3 Select a catalog, right-click, and select Delete.
4 Click OK.
The empty catalog is deleted from your organization.
Modify the Properties of Your Catalog
You can review and modify your catalog properties.
You are at least a catalog author.
Chapter 5 Working with Catalogs
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