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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
Move Running Virtual Machines from one ESX/ESXi Host to Another
You can move all the virtual machines that are running on one ESX/ESXi host to another. This is useful if you
want to unprepare a host, or if you want to perform maintenance on a host without affecting running virtual
machines.
Prerequisites
You must disable the host.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Hosts in the left pane.
2 Right-click the host name and select Redeploy all VMs.
Cloud Director puts the host into maintenance mode and moves all its running virtual machines to another
host in the same cluster.
Prepare or Unprepare an ESX/ESXi Host
When you add an ESX/ESXi host to a vSphere cluster that Cloud Director uses, you must prepare the host
before a provider vDC can use its resources. You can unprepare a host to make it unavailable for use in the
Cloud Director environment.
For information about moving running virtual machines from one host to another, see “Move Running Virtual
Machines from one ESX/ESXi Host to Another,” on page 65.
You cannot prepare a host that is in lockdown mode. After you prepare a host, you can enable lockdown mode.
Prerequisites
Before you can unprepare a host, you must disable it and ensure that no virtual machines are running on the
host.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Hosts in the left pane.
2 Right-click the host name and select Prepare Host or Unprepare Host.
If you are preparing a host, type a user name and password and click OK.
Cloud Director prepares or unprepares the host for all provider vDCs that use its resources.
Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent
Cloud Director installs agent software on each ESX/ESXi host in the installation. If you upgrade your ESX/ESXi
hosts, you also need to upgrade your ESX/ESXi host agents.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Hosts in the left pane.
2 Right-click the host name and select Upgrade Host.
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