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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- vCloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Getting Started with vCloud Director
- Adding Resources to vCloud 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
- Add a Resource Pool 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
- Configure DHCP for an Organization Network
- Enable the Firewall for an Organization Network
- Add a Firewall Rule for an Organization Network
- Reorder Firewall Rules for an Organization Network
- Enable IP Masquerading for an Organization Network
- Add External IP Addresses to an Organization Network
- Configure Port Forwarding for an Organization Network
- Configure IP Translation for an Organization Network
- Reorder NAT Mapping Rules for an Organization Network
- Enable Site-to-Site VPN for an Organization Network
- Create a VPN Tunnel Within an Organization
- Create a VPN Tunnel Between Organizations
- Create a VPN Tunnel to a Remote Network
- Enable Static Routing for an Organization Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to the Same Organization Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to Different Organization Networks
- Reset an Organization Network
- View vApps and vApp Templates That Use an Organization Network
- Delete an Organization Network
- View IP Use 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
- View Syslog Server Settings for an Organization Network
- Apply Syslog Server Settings to an Organization Network
- 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 and Virtual Machines
- 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
- Modify General System Settings
- General System Settings
- Configure SMTP Settings
- Configure System Notification Settings
- Configuring Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- Configuring the System LDAP Settings
- Customize the vCloud Director Client UI
- Configure the Public Web URL
- Configure the Public Console Proxy Address
- Configure the Public REST API Base URL
- Configure the Account Lockout Policy
- Monitoring vCloud Director
- Roles and Rights
- Index
Send an Email Notification to Provider vDC Users
You can send an email notification to all users who own objects in the provider vDC, for example, vApps or
media files. You can send an email notification to let users know about upcoming system maintenance, for
example.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a valid connection to an SMTP server.
Procedure
1
Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider vDCs in the left pane.
2 Right-click the provider vDC name and select Notify.
3 Type the email subject and message and click Send Email.
Managing Organization vDCs
After you create an organization vDC, you can modify its properties, disable or delete it, and manage its
allocation model, storage, and network settings.
Create an Organization vDC
Create an organization vDC to allocate resources to an organization. An organization vDC 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 New Organization vDC Wizard on page 44
Open the New Organization vDC wizard to start the process of creating an organization vDC.
2 Select an Organization for the Organization vDC on page 44
You can create an organization vDC to provide resources to any organization in the vCloud Director
system. An organization can have more than one organization vDC.
3 Select a Provider vDC on page 44
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.
4 Select an Allocation Model on page 45
The allocation model determines how and when the provider vDC compute and memory resources that
you allocate are committed to the organization vDC.
5 Configure the Allocation Model on page 45
Configure the allocation model to specify the amount of provider vDC resources to allocate to the
organization vDC.
6 Allocate Storage on page 46
An organization vDC requires storage space for vApps and vApp templates. You can allocate storage
from the space available on provider vDC datastores.
7 Select Network Pool on page 47
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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