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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
Network Pools
A network pool is a group of undifferentiated networks that is available for use within an organization vDC.
A network pool is backed by vSphere network resources such as VLAN IDs, port groups, or Cloud isolated
networks. Cloud Director uses network pools to create NAT-routed and internal organization networks and
all vApp networks. Network traffic on each network in a pool is isolated at layer 2 from all other networks.
Each organization vDC in Cloud Director can have one network pool. Multiple organization vDCs can share
the same network pool. The network pool for an organization vDC provides the networks created to satisfy
the network quota for an organization vDC.
Only system administrators can create and manage network pools.
Organizations
Cloud Director supports multi-tenancy through the use of organizations. An organization is a unit of
administration for a collection of users, groups, and computing resources. Users authenticate at the
organization level, supplying credentials established by an organization administrator when the user was
created or imported. System administrators create and provision organizations, while organization
administrators manage organization users, groups, and catalogs. Organization administrator tasks are
described in the VMware Cloud Director User's Guide.
Users and Groups
An organization can contain an arbitrary number of users and groups. Users can be created by the organization
administrator or imported from a directory service such as LDAP. Groups must be imported from the directory
service. Permissions within an organization are controlled through the assignment of rights and roles to users
and groups.
Catalogs
Organizations use catalogs to store vApp templates and media files. The members of an organization that have
access to a catalog can use the catalog's vApp templates and media files to create their own vApps. A system
administrator can allow an organization to publish a catalog to make it available to other organizations.
Organizations administrators can then choose which catalog items to provide to their users.
Log In to the Web Console
You can access the Cloud Director user interface by using a Web browser.
For a list of supported browsers, see the VMware Cloud Director Installation and Configuration Guide.
Prerequisites
You must have the system administrator user name and password that you created during the system setup.
Procedure
1 Open a Web browser and navigate to https://
hostname.domain.tld
/cloud.
For hostname.domain.tld, provide the fully qualified domain name associated with the primary IP address
of the Cloud Director server host. For example, https://cloud.example.com/cloud.
2 Type the system administrator user name and password and click Login.
Cloud Director displays a list of the next tasks you should perform.
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