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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
Name the Organization
Provide a descriptive name and an optional description for your new organization.
Procedure
1 Type an organization name.
This name provides a unique identifier that appears as part of the URL that members of the organization
use to log in to the organization.
2 Type a display name for the organization.
This name appears in the browser header when an organization member uses the unique URL to log in
to Cloud Director. An administrator or organization administrator can change this name later.
3 (Optional) Type a description of the organization.
4 Click Next.
Specify the Organization LDAP Options
You can use an LDAP service to provide a directory of users and groups for the organization. If you do not
specify an LDAP service, you must create a user account for each user in the organization. LDAP options can
only be set by a system administrator and cannot be modified by an organization administrator.
For more information about entering custom LDAP settings, see “Configuring the System LDAP Settings,” on
page 85.
Procedure
1 Select the source for organization users.
Option Description
Do not use LDAP
Organization administrator creates a local user account for each user in the
organization. You cannot create groups if you choose this option.
VCD system LDAP service
Use the Cloud Director system LDAP service as the source for organization
users and groups.
Custom LDAP service
Connect the organization to its own private LDAP service.
2 Provide any additional information that your selection requires.
Option Action
Do not use LDAP
Click Next.
VCD system LDAP service
(Optional) Type the distinguished name of the organizational unit (OU) to
use to limit the users that you can import into the organization and click
Next. If you do not enter anything, you can import all users in the system
LDAP service into the organization.
NOTE Specifying an OU does not limit the LDAP groups you can import.
You can import any LDAP group from the system LDAP root. However, only
users who are in both the OU and the imported group can log in to the
organization.
Custom LDAP service
Click Next and enter the custom LDAP settings for the organization.
Chapter 3 Creating and Provisioning Organizations
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