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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
Cloud Director attaches the new vCenter Server and registers its resources for provider virtual datacenters to
use.
What to do next
Assign a vShield for VMware Cloud Director license key in the vCenter Server.
Assign a vShield License Key in vCenter
After you attach a vCenter Server to Cloud Director, you must use the vSphere Client to assign a vShield for
VMware Cloud Director license key.
Prerequisites
The vSphere Client must be connected to the vCenter Server system.
Procedure
1 From a vSphere Client host that is connected to the vCenter Server system, select Home > Licensing.
2 For the report view, select Asset.
3 Right-click the vShield-edge asset and select Change license key.
4 Select Assign a new license key and click Enter Key.
5 Enter the license key, enter an optional label for the key, and click OK.
Use the vShield for VMware Cloud Director license key you received when you purchased Cloud Director.
You can use this license key in multiple vCenter Servers.
6 Click OK.
Adding Cloud Resources
Cloud resources are an abstraction of their underlying vSphere resources and provide the compute and
memory resources for Cloud Director virtual machines and vApps, and access to storage and network
connectivity.
Cloud resources include provider and organization virtual datacenters, external networks, organization
networks, and network pools. Before you can add cloud resources to Cloud Director, you must add vSphere
resources.
For more information about organization virtual datacenters, see “Allocate Resources to an Organization,” on
page 28.
For more information about organization networks, see “Adding Networks to an Organization,” on
page 32.
Provider Virtual Datacenters
A provider virtual datacenter (vDC) combines the compute and memory resources of a single vCenter Server
resource pool with the storage resources of one or more datastores connected to that resource pool.
A provider vDC is the source for organization vDCs.
Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter
Create a provider vDC to register vSphere compute, memory, and storage resources for Cloud Director to use.
You can create multiple provider vDCs for users in different geographic locations or business units, or for users
with different performance requirements.
A provider vDC can only include a single resource pool from a single vCenter Server.
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