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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
After you connect a virtual machine to an organization network, determine whether you want a fence or direct
connection.
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Direct, means that this network is directly connected to the organization network.
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Fenced, means that you can have identical virtual machines that are powered on in a vApp without conflict
When you connect a virtual machine to a vApp network, you must create a vApp network. In the Connection
drop-down menu, you can select None, which means that the network is isolated in the selected vApp, or to
an organization network that is referred to as a NAT.
Add a Network to a vApp
You can add a network to your vApp.
You are an organization administrator.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click vApps, right-click, and select Open.
3 On the Networking tab, select the Show networking details check box.
4 Click the Add Network button on the bottom right side of the page.
5 Select a network option.
6 If you select vApp Network, complete these steps.
a Click Next.
b Type your network specifications and click Next.
c Type a network name and click Next.
d Review your vApp network settings and click Finish.
7 If you select Organization network, complete these steps.
a Click Next.
b Select a network and click Finish.
Configure Network Services
You can configure vApp network services such as DHCP, firewall, and NAT.
Prerequisites
You have added at least one network.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, select vApps.
3 Select a vApp, right-click, and select Open.
4 On the Networking tab, select a network, right-click, and select Configure Services.
5 In the DHCP tab, select the Enable DHCP check box to change the DHCP settings.
6 Click OK.
7 On the Firewall tab, select the Enable firewall check box to change your firewall settings.
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