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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
Q
quarantine service
accepting requests 96
enabling 95
overview 94
rejecting requests 96
viewing requests 95
quick start tasks 12
R
reservation pool allocation model 29, 46
roles
copying 81
creating 80
deleting 81
editing 81
roles and rights 97
runtime leases 23
S
SMTP server 72
SMTP settings 84
storage leases 23
stranded items
deleting 67
force deleting 67
system
monitoring tasks 91
roles and rights 80
system administrators
creating accounts 77
deleting 78
disabling 78
editing accounts 78
from LDAP 78
LDAP groups 79, 80
system events 92
system notification settings 85
system settings 83
T
Technical Support, to obtain 7
thin provisioning 50
U
uploading
media 39
vApps 38
user preferences 14
V
vApps
force stopping 74
importing from vSphere 74
VCD public console proxy address 89
VCD public REST API base URL 90
VCD public URL 89
vCenter Chargeback 94
vCenter Servers
assigning a vShield license 17
attaching 15, 16
confirming settings 16
connecting 16
connection settings 63
disabling 64
reconnecting 63
removing 64
vShield Manager settings 64
virtual machines, importing from vSphere 74
vNetwork distributed switches, setting the
MTU 21
vShield, licensing 17
vShield for VMware Cloud Director license 17
vShield Manager
connecting 16
settings 64
vSphere
datastores 66
importing media files from 39
importing virtual machines from 38
resources 63
stranded items 66
W
Web console, logging in 11
Index
VMware, Inc. 103