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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
Managing Organization Users and Groups
When you create an organization, you can add one or more local users to the organization. After you create
the organization, you, or an organization administrator, can add local users, LDAP users, and LDAP groups
to the organization.
For more information about adding users and groups to an organization, see the VMware Cloud Director User's
Guide.
Managing Organization vApps
There are a couple of tasks related to managing organization vApps that can only be performed by a system
administrator. System administrators can import a vApp from vSphere and can force stop a running vApp.
For more information about working with vApps in an organization, see the VMware Cloud Director User's
Guide.
Import a vSphere Virtual Machine as a vApp
A system administrator can import a vSphere virtual machine as a Cloud Director vApp.
Prerequisites
You must be logged in to Cloud Director as a system administrator.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Open.
3 Click the My Cloud tab and click vApps in the left pane.
4 Click the Import from vSphere button.
5 Select a vCenter Server and a virtual machine.
6 Type a name and optional description for the vApp and select a destination organization vDC.
7 Select whether to copy or move the source virtual machine.
8 Click OK.
Force Stop a Running vApp
A system administrator can force stop a running vApp when an organization user is unable to do so.
In some cases, a user may be unable to stop a running vApp. If traditional methods for stopping the vApp fail,
you can force stop the vApp to prevent the user from getting billed.
Force stopping a vApp does not prevent the vApp from consuming resources in vSphere. After you force stop
a vApp in Cloud Director, use the vSphere Client to check the status of the vApp in vSphere and take the
necessary action.
Prerequisites
You must be logged in to Cloud Director as a system administrator.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Open.
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