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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
5 Navigate to your script file and click Open.
The file must be in a .txt, .bat, or .sh format.
6 Click OK.
Reset Your Virtual Machine's Password
You can reset your virtual machine's password.
Prerequisites
The virtual machine's guest OS is personalized, and your virtual machine is powered off.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click VMs.
3 Select a virtual machine, right-click, and select Properties.
4 On the Guest OS Customization tab, select the Enable guest customization check box.
5 Select the Allow local administrator password check box.
6 To force all administrators to change the password at the initial log in, select the Require administrator
to change password on first login check box.
Administrators must know the old password.
7 Determine whether you want an automatically generated password.
To use a specific password, select Specify password and type it.
8 (Optional) To use a specific password, select Specify password and type the password.
9 Click OK.
The password for your virtual machine is reset.
Domain Join Requirements for Windows
The automatic domain join feature has several requirements.
During the customization process, for Windows 2000, Microsoft Sysprep attempts to join the domain before
network customization occurs. Therefore, the network properties of the source virtual machine are used to
attempt to join the domain.
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If the source virtual machine network properties are such that the domain controller is not resolvable,
domain join fails.
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If the source virtual machine was configured with a manually configured DNS, that DNS is contacted to
resolve the domain controller even if the manually configured DNS is not on the network. In the case
where the DNS cannot be found, domain join fails.
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If the source Windows 2000 virtual machine was configured with DHCP, the new network DHCP is used
to attempt to resolve the domain controller. In this case, if the DNS that is configured to the DHCP can
resolve the domain controller, domain join succeeds.
During customization for Microsoft Windows XP or later, Microsoft Sysprep resets the guest to configure the
network settings to DHCP before attempting to join the domain, regardless of the source virtual machine or
network settings. For automatic domain join to succeed, the DHCP on the network must be able to resolve the
domain controller.
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