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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
General System Settings
vCloud Director includes general system settings that you can modify to meet your needs.
Table 9-1. General System Settings
Name Category Description
Synchronization Start Time LDAP Synchronization Time of day to start LDAP synchronization.
Synchronization Interval LDAP Synchronization The number of hours between LDAP synchronisations.
Login policy Login Policy Select a login policy.
Activity log history to keep Activity Log Number of days of log history to keep before deleting it.
Type 0 to never delete logs.
Activity log history shown Activity Log Number of days of log history to display.
Type 0 to show all activity.
Display debug information Activity Log Enable this setting to display debug information in the
vCloud Director task log.
IP address release timeout Networking Number of seconds to keep released IP addresses on hold
before making them available for allocation again. This
default setting is 2 hours (7200 seconds) to allow old
entries to expire from client ARP tables.
Allow Overlapping External
Networks
Networking Select the check box to add external networks that run on
the same network segment.
Enable
this setting only if you are using non-VLAN-based
methods (for example, VMware vShield Manager) to
isolate your external networks.
Default syslog server settings for
networks
Networking Type IP addresses for up to two Syslog servers for
networks to use. This setting does not apply to Syslog
servers used by cloud cells.
Provider Locale Localization Select a locale for provider activity, including log entries,
email alerts, and so on.
Idle session timeout Miscellaneous Amount of time the vCloud Director application remains
active without user interaction.
Maximum session timeout Miscellaneous Maximum amount of time the vCloud Director
application remains active.
Host refresh frequency Miscellaneous How often vCloud Director checks whether its ESX/ESXi
hosts are accessible or inaccessible.
Host hung timeout Miscellaneous Select the amount of time to wait before marking a host as
hung.
Transfer session timeout Miscellaneous Amount of time to wait before failing a paused or canceled
upload task, for example upload media or upload vApp
template. This timeout does not affect upload tasks that
are in progress.
Chargeback Event History to Keep Miscellaneous Number of days of chargeback event history to keep
before deleting it.
Chargeback Event Cleanup Start
Time
Miscellaneous Time of day to start chargeback event history cleanup.
Provide default vApp names Miscellaneous Select the check box to generate default names for vApps.
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