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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 vDC Networks
- Configuring Oganization vDC Network Services
- Configure DHCP for an Organization vDC Network
- Configure the Firewall for an Organization vDC Network
- Add a Firewall Rule to an Organization vDC Network
- Reorder Firewall Rules for an Organization vDC Network
- Enable VPN for an Organization vDC Network
- Create a VPN Tunnel In an Organization
- Create a VPN Tunnel Between Organizations
- Create a VPN Tunnel to a Remote Network
- Enable Static Routing for an Organization vDC Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to the Same Organization vDC Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to Different Organization vDC Networks
- Reset an Organization vDC Network
- View IP Use for an Organization vDC Network
- Add IP Addresses to an Organization vDC Network IP Pool
- View vApps and vApp Templates That Use an Organization vDC Network
- View Syslog Server Settings for an Organization vDC Network
- Apply Syslog Server Settings to an Organization vDC Network
- Configuring Oganization vDC Network Services
- 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
- Enable Your Organization to Use an SAML Identity Provider
- 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
- Import a Virtual Machine as a vApp
- About the vApp Placement Engine
- 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 a Virtual Machine to a vApp
- Import a Virtual Machine to a vApp from vSphere
- Remove Virtual Machines from a vApp
- Set vApp Start and Stop Options
- Working with Networks in a vApp
- View vApp Networks
- Adding Networks to a vApp
- Configuring Network Services for a vApp Network
- Configure DHCP for an vApp Network
- Configure 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
- Editing vApp Properties
- Display a vApp Diagram
- Change the Owner of a vApp
- Upgrade the Virtual Hardware Version for a vApp
- Save vApp as a vApp Template to Your Catalog
- Create a Snapshot of a vApp
- Revert a vApp to a Snapshot
- Remove a Snapshot of a vApp
- 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
- Create a Snapshot of a Virtual Machine
- Revert a Virtual Machine to a Snapshot
- Remove a Snapshot of a Virtual Machine
- Copy or Move a Virtual Machine to a vApp
- Delete a Virtual Machine
- Editing Virtual Machine Properties
- 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
Your catalog is available to organization administrators in all organizations.
Share A Catalog
Share a catalog to make its contents available to users in your organization. Users with the proper rights and
access level can use vApp templates and media from the shared catalog to create their own vApps.
You are at least a catalog author.
Procedure
1 Click Catalogs > My Organization's Catalogs.
2 Select a catalog, right-click, and select Share.
3 Click Add Members.
4 Select the users and groups with whom you want to share the catalog.
Option Action
Everyone in the organization
Select this option to share the catalog with everyone.
Specific users and groups
Select this option, click specific users and groups, and click Add.
5 Select an access level and click OK.
Option Supported Actions
Read Only
Open, Add to My Cloud, Download, Copy to Catalog
Read/Write
Open, Add to My Cloud, Download, Copy to Catalog, Publish, Move to
Catalog, Delete
Full control
Open, Add to My Cloud, Download, Copy to Catalog, Publish, Move to
Catalog, Delete, Share
The actual actions a user can perform on a catalog and its contents depends on the intersection of the rights
of the user and their access level to the catalog. Sharing a catalog with full control does not grant a user
rights that the user does not already have.
6 Click OK.
Change the Owner of a Catalog
You can change the owner of a catalog. Before you can delete a user who owns a catalog, you must change the
owner or delete the catalog.
You are an organization administrator.
Procedure
1 Click Catalogs > My Organization's Catalogs.
2 On the Catalogs tab, right-click a catalog and select Change Owner.
3 Select a user from the list or search for one.
You can search for a user by full name or their user name.
4 Click OK.
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