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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
Understanding VMware Cloud
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Cloud Director has components that are visible to and are used by organization administrators,
catalog authors, vApp authors, and vApp users. They access the components from a role-based, Web console.
Cloud Director provides the interface, automation, and management features that allow enterprises and service
providers to supply vSphere resources as a Web-based service. The system administrator creates the
organization and assigns resources. After the organization is created, the system administrator emails the
organization's URL to the administrator assigned to the organization. Using the URL, the organization
administrator logs in to the organization and sets it up, configures resource use, adds users, and selects
organization-specific profiles and settings. Users create, use, and manage virtual machines and vApps.
Organizations are composed of these components.
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vApps, which are composed of one or more virtual machines that communicate over networks and use
resources and services.
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Users and groups, which define the users and groups that belong to an organization.
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Organization virtual datacenters (vDC), which is a collection of virtual resources that are assigned to an
organization by the system administrator. An organization can have multiple organization vDCs.
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Catalogs, which is a container for these components.
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vApp templates
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Media files (floppy disks and ISO images)
Each organization has a unique login URL, and locally-created and LDAP-imported users exist and operate
only in this organization. The settings in each organization are independent from settings made to other
organizations. An exception is SMTP settings that can be made on a per-organization or by inheriting the
settings in Cloud Director's default SMTP server.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Access the Web Console,” on page 9
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“Set User Preferences,” on page 10
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“Change Your Password,” on page 10
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“Set Your Microsoft Internet Explorer Options,” on page 10
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“Set your Mozilla Firefox Options,” on page 12
Access the Web Console
You can use the URL that you received from the system administrator to log in to the organization and access
the Web console.
You are an organization administrator.
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