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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
Preparing the System
The Home tab in the Cloud Director Web console provides links to the tasks required to prepare the system
for use. Links become active after you complete prerequisite tasks.
For more information about each task, see Table 1-1.
Table 1-1. Quick Start Tasks
Task For More Information
Attach a vCenter “Attach a vCenter Server,” on page 15
Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter “Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter,” on page 17
Create an External Network “Add an External Network,” on page 18
Create a Network Pool “Network Pools,” on page 19
Create an Organization “Create an Organization,” on page 24
Allocate Resources to an Organization “Create an Organization vDC,” on page 45
Add a Network to an Organization “Creating Organization Networks,” on page 52
Add a Catalog to an Organization “Add a Catalog to an Organization,” on page 73
Create a Microsoft Sysprep Deployment Package
Before Cloud Director can perform guest customization on virtual machines with certain Windows guest
operating systems, you must create a Microsoft Sysprep deployment package on each Cloud cell in your
installation.
During installation, Cloud Director places some files in the sysprep folder on the Cloud Director server host.
Do not overwrite these files when you create the Sysprep package.
Prerequisites
Access to the Sysprep binary files for Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (32- and 64-bit), and Windows XP (32-
and 64-bit).
Procedure
1 Copy the Sysprep binary files for each operating system to a convenient location on a Cloud Director
server host.
Each operating system requires its own folder.
NOTE Folder names are case-sensitive.
Guest OS Copy Destination
Windows 2000 SysprepBinariesDirectory /win2000
Windows 2003 (32-bit) SysprepBinariesDirectory /win2k3
Windows 2003 (64-bit) SysprepBinariesDirectory /win2k3_64
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