5.5

Modify Organization Email Preferences
vCloud Director requires an SMTP server to send user notification and system alert emails. You can modify
the settings you specified when you created the organization.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Properties.
3 Click the Email Preferences tab.
4 Select an SMTP server option.
Option Description
Use system default SMTP server
Organization uses the system SMTP server.
Set organization SMTP server
Organization uses its own SMTP server. If you select this option, type the
DNS host name or IP address and port number of the SMTP server.
(Optional) Select the Requires authentication check box and type a user
name and password.
5 Select a notification settings option.
Option Description
Use system default notification
settings
Organization uses the system notification settings.
Set organization notification
settings
Organization uses its own notification settings. If you select this option,
type an email address that appears as the sender for organization emails,
type text to use as the subject prefix for organization emails, and select the
recipients for organization emails.
6 (Optional) Type a destination email address and click Test Email Settings to verify that all SMTP server
settings are configured as expected.
7 Click OK.
Modify Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings
Leases, quotas, and limits constrain the ability of organization users to consume storage and processing
resources. You can modify these settings to prevent users from depleting or monopolizing an organization's
resources.
For more information about leases, see “Understanding Leases,” on page 25.
Leases provide a level of control over an organization's storage and compute resources by specifying the
maximum amount of time that vApps can be running and that vApps and vApp templates can be stored.
You can also specify what happens to vApps and vApp templates when their storage lease expires.
Quotas determine how many virtual machines each user in the organization can store and power on in the
organization's virtual datacenters. The quota you specify acts as a default for all new users added to the
organization.
Certain vCloud Director operations, for example copy and move, are more resource intensive than others.
Limits prevent resource-intensive operations from affecting all the users in an organization and also provide
a defense against denial-of-service attacks.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
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