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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
media, uploading 39
Microsoft Sysprep 12, 13
monitoring, tasks and events 91
monitoring Cloud Director 91
MTU 21
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network pools
adding Cloud isolated networks 60
adding port groups 59
adding VLAN IDs 60
Cloud network isolation-backed 19
defined 19
deleting 60
name and description 59
port group-backed 20
setting the MTU 21
VLAN-backed 19
network quota 31, 48
network services 54
Nexus 1000V 20
O
organization networks
adding 32
adding a firewall rule 56
adding IP addresses 58
configuring DHCP 55
configuring external IP mapping 57
configuring external IPs 56
configuring firewalls 55
configuring NAT 57
configuring services 54
creating 52
deleting 58
external direct 33, 52
external NAT-routed 34, 53
internal 34, 54
IP masquerade 56
managing 52
modifying DNS 59
modifying the name and description 59
resetting 57
viewing IP usage 58
organization vDCs
allocating storage 31, 48
allocation model settings 50
allocation models 30, 47
changing description 50
changing name 50
confirm settings 32, 49
creating 29, 45
deleting 49
enabling or disabling 49
monitoring usage 93
naming 32, 49
network pools 50
network quota 31, 48
selecting a network pool 31, 48
selecting a provider vDC 29, 46
selecting the organization 46
storage capacity 50
organizations
adding local users 26
allocating resources 28, 29
catalog publishing 71
confirm settings 28
creating 24
deleting 69
email preferences 27, 72
enabling or disabling 69
full name and description 70
LDAP options 25, 70
lease settings 27, 72
limit settings 27, 72
managing 69
managing resources 73
monitoring events 92
monitoring tasks 92
naming 25
publishing catalogs 26
quota settings 27, 72
renaming 70
SMTP server 27
SMTP settings 72
users and groups 74
vApps 74
OVF upload 38
P
pay-as-you-go allocation model 29, 46
provider vDCs
adding storage capacity 43
changing name 42
creating 17
defined 17
deleting 41
enabling or disabling 41
managing 41
monitoring usage 93
publishing catalogs 37, 40
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