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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started with Cloud Director
- Adding Resources to Cloud Director
- Adding vSphere Resources
- Adding Cloud Resources
- Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- External Networks
- Add an External Network
- Network Pools
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by VLAN IDs
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by vSphere Port Groups
- Set the MTU for a Network Pool Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Creating and Provisioning Organizations
- Creating a Published Catalog
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC
- Delete a Provider vDC
- Modify a Provider vDC Name and Description
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Host
- Prepare or Unprepare a Provider vDC Host
- Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent for a Provider vDC Host
- Repair a Provider vDC ESX/ESXi Host
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Datastore
- Add Storage Capacity to a Provider vDC
- Configure Low Disk Space Warnings for a Provider vDC Datastore
- Send an Email Notification to Provider vDC Users
- Managing Organization vDCs
- Managing External Networks
- Managing Organization Networks
- Creating Organization Networks
- Configuring Network Services
- Reset an Organization Network
- Delete an Organization Network
- View IP Usage for an Organization Network
- Add IP Addresses to an Organization Network IP Pool
- Modify an Organization Network Name and Description
- Modify an Organization Network DNS Settings
- Managing Network Pools
- Managing Cloud Cells
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Managing vSphere Resources
- Managing Organizations
- Enable or Disable an Organization
- Delete an Organization
- Modify an Organization Name
- Modify an Organization Full Name and Description
- Modify Organization LDAP Options
- Modify Organization Catalog Publishing Policy
- Modify Organization Email Preferences
- Modify Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings
- Add a Catalog to an Organization
- Managing Organization Resources
- Managing Organization Users and Groups
- Managing Organization vApps
- Managing System Administrators and Roles
- Add a System Administrator
- Import a System Administrator
- Enable or Disable a System Administrator
- Delete a System Administrator
- Edit System Administrator Profile and Contact Information
- Send an Email Notification to Users
- Delete a System Administrator Who Lost Access to the System
- Import an LDAP Group
- Delete an LDAP Group
- Change an LDAP Group Description
- Roles and Rights
- Create a Role
- Copy a Role
- Edit a Role
- Delete a Role
- Managing System Settings
- Monitoring Cloud Director
- Roles and Rights
- Index
Index
A
activity log 91, 92
adding resources 15
adding vSphere resources 15
allocation models 29, 30, 46, 47
allocation pool allocation model 29, 46
B
branding the UI 88
C
catalog publishing, enabling 37
catalogs
adding 73
creating 37
publishing 37, 40
changing your password 14
Cisco Nexus 1000V 20
cloud cells
adding 61
deleting 61
maintenance message 61, 62
managing 60
restarting 60
starting 60
stopping 60
Cloud Director overview 9
cloud resources 17, 41
cost reporting 94
D
datastores
disk space warnings 44, 66
enabling and disabling 43, 66
monitoring capacity 44
DHCP network services 55
E
email notifications 44, 79, 85
email settings 84
ESX/ESXi hosts
enabling and disabling 42, 64
moving virtual machines 65
preparing and unpreparing 42, 65
repairing 43, 66
upgrading agent 43, 65
external networks
adding 18
adding IP addresses 51
defined 18
deleting 51
name and description 51
specification 51
G
general system settings 83
getting started 9
guest customization, preparing 12, 13
guided tasks 12
I
importing
media files 39
vApp templates 38
J
JMX, accessing 93
JMX service 93
K
Kerberos realm 87
L
LDAP
configuring 85
customizing attributes 88
setting up the connection 86
support 85
synchronizing 88
testing the connection 87
LDAP groups, adding a description 80
leases, runtime and storage 23
licensing, vShield 17
load balancer 89, 90
logging in 11
logs 94
Lost & Found 79
M
MBeans 93
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