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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 a destination vDC and catalog.
7 Click Upload.
What to do next
You must verify that VMware Tools is installed in each virtual machine's Properties page. You can click the
Launch the Uploads and Downloads Progress Window button to track the progress.
Resume the Upload of a vApp Template
If the upload process is interrupted, paused, or cancelled you can resume it.
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You are at least a catalog creator.
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If you log out of Cloud Director and log in, transfer history is lost. You cannot resume the upload.
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The default timeout for pending transfer sessions is one hour. You can configure this value up to one hour.
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During pending or stopped transfers, the session keep alive heartbeat kicks in every 15 minutes. To ensure
that the session does not time out while tasks are paused, make sure the session timeout value is more
than 15 minutes.
Prerequisites
You have initiated the upload or download of a vApp template.
Procedure
1 In the Launch the Uploads and Downloads Progress Window, click Pause or Cancel.
The status changes to Stopped in the progress window and Waiting in the vApp Template page.
2 In the Launch the Uploads and Downloads Progress Window, click Resume.
The upload or download process resumes.
3 Monitor the progress in theLaunch the Uploads and Downloads Progress Window .
Add a vApp Template from a Catalog
You can add a vApp template from a published catalog to your catalog.
You are at least a catalog author.
Prerequisites
You have set up multiple catalogs and vDCs.
Procedure
1 Click Catalogs.
2 In the left pane, click Public Catalogs.
3 On the vApp Templates tab, select a vApp template, right-click, and select Copy To Catalog.
4 Modify the name and select a destination catalog and vDC.
5 Click OK.
The added vApp template appears in My Organization's Catalogs. See “Customizing Your Guest Operating
System,” on page 78 for more information on customizing the guest OS in a virtual machine in a vApp
template.
Chapter 7 Working with vApp Templates
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