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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
Customizing a Guest OS When Saving a vApp Template as a vApp
Before you customize a guest OS in a vApp template, you need to understand the settings you need to make.
On the vApp Templates Properties page, if you select Customize VM Settings for the When creating a vApp
from this template option, and you select Add to My Cloud or Add from Catalog, the Enable guest
customization check box is selected by default and guest customization is performed.
These are the default values of guest customization settings.
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The Enable guest customization check box is selected.
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For Windows guest VMs, the Change SID option is the same as the source virtual machine in your catalog.
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Password reset setting is the same as the source virtual machine in your catalog.
If you select Make Identical Copy on the vApp template Properties page, and select Add to My Cloud, the
settings in the vApp Template are applied to the new vApp, regardless of whether customization is enabled.
These are the default values of guest customization settings.
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The Enable guest customization check box is deselected.
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In Windows guest virtual machines, the Change SID check box is deselected.
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The password reset setting is deselected.
After you import or upload to a catalog, these are the default values.
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The Customize VM Settings check box is selected in the vApp
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The Enable guest customization check box is selected for the virtual machines.
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For Windows guest VMs, the Change SID check box is selected for the virtual machines.
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The Password reset setting is selected by default for the virtual machines.
If you are a vApp template owner and you import or upload to a catalog, you must check the VMware Tools
version installed on the virtual machines in the vApp. To do this, select the vApp template, right-click, and
select Open. Tools version is shown in the VMware Tools column. If you select Customize VM Settings,
VMware Tools should be installed on all virtual machines. See “Installing VMware Tools,” on page 67 for more
information.
Enable or Disable Guest Customization
You can disable guest customization for a virtual machine or a vApp template.
Prerequisites
VMware Tools is installed.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click vApp or VMs.
3 Select a vApp or virtual machine, right-click, and select Properties.
4 On the Guest OS Customization tab, select or deselect the Enable guest customization check box.
5 Click OK.
Guest customization in the selected virtual machine is enabled or disabled.
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