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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
4 Select the number of simultaneous VMware Remote Console connections for each virtual machine.
You may want to limit the number of simultaneous connections for performance or security reasons.
NOTE This setting does not affect Virtual Network Computing (VNC) or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
connections.
5 Click Next.
Confirm Settings and Create the Organization
Before you create the organization, review the settings you entered.
Procedure
1 Review the settings for the organization.
2 (Optional) Click Back to modify the settings.
3 Click Finish to accept the settings and create the organization.
What to do next
Allocate resources to the organization.
Allocate Resources to an Organization
You allocate resources to an organization by creating an organization vDC that is partitioned from a provider
vDC. A single organization can have multiple organization vDCs.
Prerequisites
You must have a provider vDC before you can allocate resources to an organization.
Procedure
1 Open the Allocate Resources Wizard on page 29
Open the Allocate Resources wizard to start the process of creating an organization vDC for an
organization.
2 Select a Provider vDC on page 29
An organization vDC obtains its compute and storage resources from a provider vDC. The organization
vDC provides these resources to vApps and virtual machines in the organization.
3 Select an Allocation Model on page 29
The allocation model determines how and when the provider vDC compute and memory resources that
you allocate are committed to the organization vDC.
4 Configure the Allocation Model on page 30
Configure the allocation model to specify the amount of provider vDC resources to allocate to the
organization vDC.
5 Allocate Storage on page 31
An organization vDC requires storage space for vApps and vApp templates. You can allocate storage
from the space available on provider vDC datastores.
6 Select Network Pool on page 31
A network pool is a group of undifferentiated networks that is used to create vApp networks and NAT-
routed or internal organization networks.
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