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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
Getting Started with Cloud Director 1
The first time you log in to the Cloud Director Web console, the Home tab guides you through the steps to
configure your installation.
You can also set your user preferences and create a Microsoft Sysprep deployment package to support guest
customization in Cloud Director virtual machines.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Overview of Cloud Director Administration,” on page 9
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“Log In to the Web Console,” on page 11
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“Preparing the System,” on page 12
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“Create a Microsoft Sysprep Deployment Package,” on page 12
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“Replace a Microsoft Sysprep Deployment Package,” on page 13
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“Set User Preferences,” on page 14
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“Change a System Administrator Password,” on page 14
Overview of Cloud Director Administration
VMware Cloud Director is a software product that provides the ability to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by
pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual datacenters and exposing them to users through Web-
based portals and programmatic interfaces as a fully-automated, catalog-based service.
The VMware Cloud Director Administrator's Guide provides information about adding resources to the system,
creating and provisioning organizations, managing resources and organizations, and monitoring the system.
vSphere Resources
Cloud Director relies on vSphere resources to provide CPU and memory to run virtual machines. In addition,
vSphere datastores provide storage for virtual machine files and other files necessary for virtual machine
operations. Cloud Director also utilizes vNetwork Distributed Switches and vSphere port groups to support
virtual machine networking.
You can use these underlying vSphere resources to create cloud resources.
Cloud Resources
Cloud resources are an abstraction of their underlying vSphere resources. They provide the compute and
memory resources for Cloud Director virtual machines and vApps. A vApp is a virtual system that contains
one or more individual virtual machines, along with parameters that define operational details. Cloud
resources also provide access to storage and network connectivity.
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