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Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider vDCs in the left pane.
2 Right-click the provider vDC name and select Open.
3 Click the Resource Pools tab.
4 Right-click the resource pool name and select Open.
5 Right-click the virtual machine name and select Migrate to.
Hold down Ctrl and click to select multiple virtual machines.
6 Choose how to select the destination resource pool for the virtual machine.
Option Description
Automatically select a resource pool
vCloud Director chooses the destination resource pool for the virtual
machines based on the current resource balance of all available resource
pools.
Manually select a resource pool
Select a resource pool from the list of available resource pools to which to
migrate the virtual machines to .
7 Click OK.
Configure Low Disk Space Warnings for a Provider vDC Datastore
You can configure low disk space warnings on a datastore to receive an email from vCloud Director when the
datastore reaches a specific threshold of available capacity. These warnings alert you to a low disk situation
before it becomes a problem.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Provider vDCs in the left pane.
2 Right-click the provider vDC name and select Open.
3 Click the Datastores tab.
4 Right-click the datastore name and select Properties.
5 Select the disk space thresholds for the datastore.
You can set two thresholds, yellow and red. When vCloud Director sends an email alert, the message
indicates which threshold was crossed.
6 Click OK.
vCloud Director sets the thresholds for all provider vDCs that use the datastore. vCloud Director sends an
email alert when the datastore crosses the threshold.
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.
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