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Managing Cloud Resources 2
A vCloud Director system administrator creates and assigns virtual datacenters and networks to an
organization. An organization administrator can view information about these resources and perform a
limited set of management tasks. Contact your system administrator if you need more organization virtual
datacenters or organization virtual datacenter networks..
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Managing Virtual Datacenters,” on page 17
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“Managing Organization Virtual Datacenter Networks,” on page 18
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“Managing Expired Items,” on page 30
Managing Virtual Datacenters
Virtual datacenters provide processor, memory, and storage resources to your organization. They are
assigned to your organization by your system administrator. An organization can have multiple virtual
datacenters.
Display Virtual Datacenters
When you display the virtual datacenters in your organization, you can monitor the resources, users, and
policy settings that you manage.
You are an organization administrator.
Procedure
1 Click Administration.
2 In the left pane, select Cloud Resources > Virtual Datacenters.
A list of virtual datacenters in your organization appears in the right pane.
3 For details about a virtual datacenter, right-click, and select Open.
The vApps, vApp templates, media, and networks attached to this virtual datacenter are displayed.
When you click through each tab, you can right click on an object to see the operations you can
complete.
Review Virtual Datacenter Properties
You can review the properties of the virtual datacenters that are assigned to your organization.
Procedure
1 Click Administration.
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