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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
7 Name the Organization vDC on page 32
Provide a descriptive name and an optional description for your new organization vDC.
8 Confirm Settings and Create the Organization vDC on page 32
Before you create the organization vDC, review the settings you entered.
What to do next
Add a network to the organization.
Open the Allocate Resources Wizard
Open the Allocate Resources wizard to start the process of creating an organization vDC for an organization.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Allocate Resources from the menu.
The Allocate Resources wizard starts.
Select a Provider vDC
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.
Procedure
1 Select a provider vDC.
The provider vDC list displays information about available resources and the networks list displays
information about networks available to the selected provider vDC.
2 Click Next.
Select an Allocation Model
The allocation model determines how and when the provider vDC compute and memory resources that you
allocate are committed to the organization vDC.
Procedure
1 Select an allocation model.
Option Description
Allocation Pool
Only a percentage of the resources you allocate are committed to the
organization vDC. You can specify the percentage, which allows you to
overcommit resources.
Pay-As-You-Go
Resources are only committed when users create vApps in the organization
vDC. You can specify a percentage of resources to guarantee, which allows
you to overcommit resources.
Reservation Pool
All of the resources you allocate are immediately committed to the
organization vDC. Users in the organization can control overcommitment
by specifying reservation, limit, and priority settings for individual virtual
machines.
2 Click Next.
Chapter 3 Creating and Provisioning Organizations
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