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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
2 Type the public web URL.
3
Click Apply.
When you create an organization, its organization URL includes the public web URL instead of the HTTP
service IP address. vCloud Director also modifies the organization URLs of existing organizations.
Configure the Public Console Proxy Address
If your vCloud Director installation includes multiple cloud cells running behind a load balancer or NAT, or
if the cloud cells do not have publicly-routable IP addresses, you can set a public console proxy address.
During the initial configuration of each cloud cell, you specified a remote console proxy IP address. By default,
vCloud Director uses that address when a user attempts to view a virtual machine console. To use a different
address, specify a public console proxy address.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Public Addresses in the left pane.
2 Type the hostname or IP address for the public console proxy address.
This can be the address of the load balancer or some other machine that can route traffic to the remote
console proxy IP.
3 Click Apply.
Remote console session tickets sent to the HTTP service IP address return the public console proxy address.
Configure the Public REST API Base URL
If your vCloud Director installation includes multiple cloud cells running behind a load balancer or NAT, or
if the cloud cells do not have publicly-routable IP addresses, you can set a public REST API base URL.
During the initial configuration of each cloud cell, you specified an HTTP service IP address. By default, vCloud
Director uses that address in the XML responses from the REST API and as the upload target for the transfer
service (for uploading vApp templates and media). To use a different address, specify a public REST API base
URL.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Public Addresses in the left pane.
2 Type the hostname or IP address for the public REST API base URL.
This can be the address of the load balancer or some other machine that can route traffic to the HTTP
service IP.
3 Click Apply.
XML responses from the REST API include the base URL and the transfer service uses the base URL as the
upload target.
Configure the Account Lockout Policy
You can enable account lockout to prevent a user from logging in to the Web console after a certain number
of failed attempts. By default, the settings you specify apply to all organizations in the installation, but a system
administrator or organization administrator can override the settings for a specific organization.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Password Policy in the left pane.
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