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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 Catalogs.
2 In the left pane, click My Organization's Catalogs.
3 Select a catalog, right-click, and select Properties.
4 Review the properties in the General, Sharing, and Publishing tabs.
5 Modify the relevant properties and click OK.
Your catalog properties are updated.
Understanding Catalogs and Their Contents
A catalog consists of a list of catalogs, vApp templates, and media files in your organization.
When you click the Catalogs button in the menu bar, these tabs appear.
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Catalogs
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vApp Templates
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Media
If you are an organization administrator, you can access published catalogs in the left pane.
Using vApp Templates in a Catalog
You can access vApp templates in a catalog in your organization or, if you are an organization administrator,
from a published catalog.
To access a vApp template in a catalog in your organization, in the left pane, click My Organization's Catalogs
and click on the vApp Templates tab. Select a vApp template and right-click to see the operations you can
complete.
Using Media Files in a Catalog
You can access media files in a catalog in your organization or, if you are a organization administrator, a
published catalog.
To access a media file in a catalog in your organization, in the left pane, click My Organization's Catalogs and
click on the Media tab. Select a media file and right-click to see the operations you can complete.
Working in Published Catalogs
If you have sufficient rights, you can access published catalogs.
You can access catalogs, vApp templates, and media files from other organizations and copy them to your
catalog.
Accessing vApp Templates from a Public Catalog
You can access vApp templates from published catalogs and copy them to your catalog.
You are an organization administrator.
Procedure
1 Click Catalogs.
2 In the left pane, click Public Catalogs.
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