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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
Working with Virtual Machines 9
Virtual machines have a guest operating system on which you can install and run any software supported by
that operating system. In Cloud Director, you can install VMware Tools, insert DVDs and floppy disks, and
remotely connect to virtual machines.
These are the most basic operations that you can do on a virtual machine.
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Power On, which is equal to powering on a physical machine.
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Power Off, which is equal to powering off a physical machine.
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Suspend, where the CPU of a deployed virtual machine is frozen. You can suspend a machine when you
need to leave a virtual machine but do not want to lose its current state.
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Reset, which power cycles the virtual machine.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Open a Virtual Machine Console,” on page 63
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“Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine,” on page 64
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“Discard the Suspended State of a Virtual Machine,” on page 64
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“Insert a CD/DVD,” on page 64
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“Eject a CD/DVD,” on page 65
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“Insert a Floppy,” on page 65
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“Eject a Floppy,” on page 65
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“Copy or Move a Virtual Machine to a vApp,” on page 65
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“Delete a Virtual Machine,” on page 66
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“Managing Your Virtual Machines,” on page 66
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“Installing VMware Tools,” on page 67
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“Guest Operating System Support,” on page 78
Open a Virtual Machine Console
Accessing your virtual machine console allows you to view information about a virtual machine, work with
the guest operating system, and perform operations that affect the guest operating system.
Prerequisites
You might be required to install VMware Remote Console Plug-In. Click Install in the dialog box that appears.
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