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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Director User's Guide
- Contents
- vCloud Director User's Guide
- Getting Started with vCloud Director
- Managing Users and Groups
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Managing Virtual Datacenters
- Managing Organization Networks
- Configuring Network Services for an Organization Network
- Configure DHCP for an Organization Network
- Enable the Firewall for an Organization Network
- Add a Firewall Rule to an Organization Network
- Reorder Firewall Rules for an Organization Network
- Enable IP Masquerading for an Organization Network
- Add a Port Forwarding Rule to an Organization Network
- Add an IP Translation Rule to an Organization Network
- Reorder NAT Mapping Rules for an Organization Network
- Enable Site-to-Site VPN for an Organization Network
- Create a VPN Tunnel Within an Organization
- Create a VPN Tunnel Between Organizations
- Create a VPN Tunnel to a Remote Network
- Enable Static Routing for an Organization Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to the Same Organization Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to Different Organization Networks
- Reset an Organization Network
- View IP Usage for an Organization Network
- Add IP Addresses to an Organization Network IP Pool
- View vApps and vApp Templates That Use an Organization Network
- View Syslog Server Settings for an Organization Network
- Apply Syslog Server Settings to an Organization Network
- Configuring Network Services for an Organization Network
- Managing Expired Items
- Working in an Organization
- Understanding Leases
- Set Up an Organization
- Review Your Organization Profile
- Modify Your Email Settings
- Modify Your Organization's Policies
- Set Default Domain for Organization Virtual Machines
- 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
- Copy a vApp Template from a Public Catalog to an Organization Catalog
- Copy a vApp Template Between an Organization's Catalogs
- Move a vApp Template Between an Organization's Catalogs
- Delete a vApp Template
- Save a vApp as a vApp Template
- Modify vApp Template Properties
- Working with vApps
- Create a vApp From a vApp Template
- Create a New vApp
- Copy 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
- View vApp Virtual Machines
- Add Virtual Machines to a vApp
- Remove Virtual Machines from a vApp
- Set vApp Start and Stop Options
- Working with Networks in a vApp
- View vApp Networks
- Add a vApp Network to a vApp
- Add an Organization Network to a vApp
- Configuring Network Services for a vApp Network
- Configure DHCP for an vApp Network
- Enable the Firewall for a vApp Network
- Add a Firewall Rule to a vApp Network
- Reorder Firewall Rules for a vApp Network
- Enable IP Masquerading for a vApp Network
- Add a Port Forwarding Rule to a vApp Network
- Add an IP Translation Rule to a vApp Network
- Reorder Port Forwarding Rules for a vApp Network
- Enable Static Routing for a vApp Network
- Add Static Routes to vApp Networks
- Reset Your vApp Network
- Delete a vApp Network
- Modify Network Properties
- Display the IP Allocations for Your vApp Network
- Configure IP Address Persistence
- View Syslog Server Settings for a vApp Network
- Apply Syslog Server Settings to a vApp Network
- Display a vApp Diagram
- Modify a vApp Name and Description
- Modify vApp OVF Environment Properties
- Reset vApp Leases
- Share a vApp
- Change the Owner of a vApp
- Upgrade the Virtual Hardware Version for a vApp
- Save vApp as a vApp Template to Your Catalog
- Copy a vApp to Another vDC
- Move a vApp to Another vDC
- Delete a vApp
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Open a Virtual Machine Console
- Power On a Virtual Machine
- Power Off a Virtual Machine
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Suspend a Virtual Machine
- Resume a Suspended Virtual Machine
- Discard the Suspended State of a Virtual Machine
- Insert a CD/DVD
- Eject a CD/DVD
- Insert a Floppy
- Eject a Floppy
- Upgrade the Virtual Hardware Version for a Virtual Machine
- Connect Remotely to a Virtual Machine
- Copy or Move a Virtual Machine to a vApp
- Delete a Virtual Machine
- Modify Virtual Machine General Properties
- Modify Virtual Machine CPUs and Memory
- Modify Virtual Machine OVF Environment Properties
- Configuring Virtual Machine Resource Allocation Settings
- Modifying Virtual Machine Hard Disks
- Modifying Virtual Machine Network Interfaces
- 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 Systems
- 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
- Power on and Force Recustomization of a Virtual Machine
- 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
What to do next
You need to install VMware Tools.
Install or Upgrade VMware Tools
You can either install VMware Tools or upgrade the current version in your virtual machine.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, select vApps.
3 On the vApps page, select a vApp, right-click, and select Open.
4 Select a virtual machine, right-click, and select Properties.
5 In the Guest OS Customization tab, deselect the Enable guest customization and other check boxes as
desired.
6 Right-click the virtual machine and select Install VMware Tools.
Enable Guest Customization
After you install or upgrade VMware Tools in your virtual machines, you must enable guest customization.
Procedure
1 On the Guest OS Customization tab, select the Enable guest customization check box.
2 Select the other check boxes in the dialog box as relevant.
Add vApp to Catalog
After you install or upgrade VMware Tools, you can add the updated vApp to your catalog.
Procedure
1 Select a vApp, right-click, and select Stop.
2 Select the vApp, right-click, and select Add vApp to Catalog.
3 Select the vApp template, right-click, and select Properties.
4 Select Customize VM Settings or Make Identical Copy.
5 (Optional) Delete the previous version of the vApp template, if necessary.
Upgrade VMware Tools
If the version of VMware Tools is earlier than 7299 in a virtual machine in your vApp, you must upgrade it.
Upgrading VMware Tools might involve uninstalling your existing VMware Tools versions and installing a
new one from a CD mounted in the operating system. This process can also be done automatically.
Prerequisites
You must stop the vApp.
Procedure
1 Install a New Version of VMware Tools on page 101
After you disable guest customization, you can upgrade VMware Tools.
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