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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
Join a Windows Guest Domain During Guest Operating System Personalization
A virtual machine can join a Windows guest domain when you personalize your guest OS.
Prerequisites
In a virtual machine's Properties page, the Enable guest customization check box is selected.
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 this VM to join a domain check box.
Override organization settings is selected by default.
5 Type a domain name, user name, and password.
6 Under Customization Script, click Browse, to upload a locally saved file.
7 Click OK.
The selected virtual machine joins the Windows guest domain.
Guest Operating System Support
Cloud Director supports a wide variety of 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems in its virtual machine templates
and virtual machines. VMware recommends that you use version 7, but you can import version 4 virtual
machines.
Microsoft Windows Guest Operating System Support, 32-Bit Support
For 32-bit Windows operating systems, Table 9-2 provides the virtual machine version and whether guest
customization is automatic or manual on 32-bit Windows guest OS systems.
Table 9-2. Microsoft Windows Guest Operating System Support, 32-Bit Support
Operating System Virtual Machine Version Customization Support
Microsoft Windows 7 Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows Server 2003,
Enterprise Edition
Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows Server 2003,
Datacenter Edition
Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows Server 2003,
Standard Edition
Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web
Edition
Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server 2003
Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows Vista Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 7 Automatic
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced
Server
Version 7 Automatic
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