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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
5 If you have multiple Cloud cells, stop each cell and copy the package and properties file to each cell.
scp /opt/vmware/cloud-director/guestcustomization/vcloud_sysprep.properties
/opt/vmware/cloud-director/guestcustomization/windows_deployment_package_sysprep.cab
root@
next_cell_IP
:/opt/vmware/cloud-director/guestcustomization
6 Restart each Cloud cell to which you copy the files.
Set User Preferences
You can set certain display and system alerts preferences that take effect every time you log in to the system.
Procedure
1 In the title bar of the Web console, click Preferences.
2 Click the Defaults tab.
3 Select the page to display when you log in.
4 Select the number of days or hours before a runtime lease expires that you want to receive an email
notification.
5 Select the number of days or hours before a storage lease expires that you want to receive an email
notification.
6 Click OK.
What to do next
Configure an SMTP server and specify the system notification settings. See “Configure SMTP Settings,” on
page 84 and “Configure System Notification Settings,” on page 85.
Change a System Administrator Password
You can change the password for your system administrator account.
You can change the password of local (non-LDAP) users only.
Procedure
1 Click Preferences in the title bar of the Web console.
2 Click the Change Password tab.
3 Type your current password and then type your new password twice and click OK.
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