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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
Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
Resetting a virtual machine clears state (memory, cache, and so on), but the vApps and virtual machines
continue to run.
Prerequisites
Your vApp is started and virtual machine is powered on.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, select vApps or VMs.
3 Select a vApp or virtual machine, right-click, and select Reset.
Share a vApp
You can share your vApps with other groups or users in your organization. The access controls you set
determine the operations that can be completed on the shared vApps.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click vApps.
3 Select a vApp, right-click, and select Share.
4 Click Add Members.
5 Determine whether you want to share the vApp with everyone in the organization or specific users.
6 If you selected Specific users and groups, select the groups or users and click Add.
7 Select an access level for each group or user.
Option Description
Full control
This user can open, start, save a vApp as a vApp template (Add to
Catalog), change the owner, copy to a catalog, and modify properties.
Read/write
This user can open, start, save a vApp as a vApp template (Add to
Catalog), copy to catalog, and modify properties.
Read only
The user only has read access to a vApp.
8 Click OK.
Your vApp is shared with the specified users or groups.
Power on and Force Recustomization of a Virtual Machine
If the settings on a guest virtual machine are not in synch with Cloud Director or an attempt to perform guest
customization has failed, you can power on and force the recustomization of the virtual machine.
You are at least a vApp user.
NOTE If you select the Change SID check box, a SID change will occur on the guest virtual machine.
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