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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
For example, assume you have 2GHz available and specify a reservation of 1GHz for VM1 and 1GHz for VM2.
Now each virtual machine is guaranteed to get 1GHz if it needs it. However, if VM1 is using only 500MHz,
VM2 can use 1.5GHz.
Reservation defaults to 0. You can specify a reservation if you need to guarantee that the minimum required
amounts of CPU or memory are always available for the virtual machine.
Resource Allocation Limit
Limit specifies an upper bound for CPU and memory resources that can be allocated to a virtual machine.
A vDC can allocate more than the reservation to a virtual machine, but never allocates more than the limit,
even if there are unused resources on the system. The limit is expressed in concrete units (megahertz or
megabytes).
CPU and memory resource limits default to unlimited. When the memory limit is unlimited, the amount of
memory configured for the virtual machine when it was created becomes its effective limit in most cases.
In most cases, it is not necessary to specify a limit. You might waste idle resources if you specify a limit. The
system does not allow a virtual machine to use more resources than the limit, even when the system is
underutilized and idle resources are available. Specify a limit only if you have good reasons for doing so.
Configure Virtual Machine Resource Allocation Settings
You can configure the resource allocation settings (shares, reservation, and limit) to determine the amount of
CPU, memory, and storage resources provided for a virtual machine.
For more information about shares, reservations, and limits, see “Resource Allocation Shares,” on page 90,
“Resource Allocation Reservation,” on page 90, and “Resource Allocation Limit,” on page 91.
Prerequisites
A reservation pool vDC.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click VMs.
3 Select a virtual machine, right-click, and select Properties.
4 Click the Resource Allocation tab and set the priority, reservation, and limit for CPU and memory.
5 Click OK.
Modifying Virtual Machine Hard Disks
You can add hard disks, edit hard disks, and delete hard disk from a virtual machine.
Add a Virtual Machine Hard Disk
You can add a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine.
The 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.
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