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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- vCloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Updated Information
- Getting Started with vCloud Director
- Adding Resources to vCloud Director
- Creating and Provisioning Organizations
- Understanding Leases
- Understanding Allocation Models
- Create an Organization
- Open the New Organization Wizard
- Name the Organization
- Specify the Organization LDAP Options
- Add Local Users to the Organization
- Set the Organization Catalog Sharing, Publishing, and Subscription Policies
- Configure Email Preferences
- Configure Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings
- Confirm Settings and Create the Organization
- Allocate Resources to an Organization
- Open the Allocate Resources Wizard
- Select a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Select an Allocation Model
- Configure the Allocation Model
- Allocate Storage
- Select Network Pool and Services
- Configure an Edge Gateway
- Configure External Networks
- Configure IP Settings on a New Edge Gateway
- Suballocate IP Pools on a New Edge Gateway
- Configure Rate Limits on a New Edge Gateway
- Create an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Name the Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Confirm Settings and Create the Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Working With Catalogs
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Managing Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Enable or Disable a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Delete a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Modify a Provider Virtual Datacenter Name and Description
- Merge Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Enable or Disable a Provider Virtual Datacenter Host
- Prepare or Unprepare a Provider Virtual Datacenter Host
- Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent for a Provider Virtual Datacenter Host
- Repair a Provider Virtual Datacenter ESX/ESXi Host
- Enable vSphere VXLAN on an Upgraded Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Provider Virtual Datacenter Datastores
- Add a Storage Policy to a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Edit the Metadata for a Storage Policy on a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Add a Resource Pool to a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Enable or Disable a Provider Virtual Datacenter Resource Pool
- Detach a Resource Pool From a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Migrate Virtual Machines Between Resource Pools on a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Configure Low Disk Space Thresholds for a Provider Virtual Datacenter Datastore
- Send an Email Notification to Provider Virtual Datacenter Users
- Managing Organization Virtual Datacenters
- Create an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Open the New Organization Virtual Datacenter Wizard
- Select an Organization for the Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Select a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- Select an Allocation Model
- Configure the Allocation Model
- Allocate Storage
- Select Network Pool and Services
- Configure an Edge Gateway
- Configure External Networks
- Configure IP Settings on a New Edge Gateway
- Suballocate IP Pools on a New Edge Gateway
- Configure Rate Limits on a New Edge Gateway
- Create an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Name the Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Confirm Settings and Create the Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Enable or Disable an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Delete an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Organization Virtual Datacenter Properties
- Add a Storage Policy to an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Create an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Managing External Networks
- Managing Edge Gateways
- Add an Edge Gateway
- Open the New Edge Gateway Wizard
- Select Gateway and IP Configuration Options for a New Edge Gateway
- Select External Networks for a New Edge Gateway
- Configure IP Settings on a New Edge Gateway
- Suballocate IP Pools on a New Edge Gateway
- Configure Rate Limits on a New Edge Gateway
- Configure the Name and Description of a New Edge Gateway
- Review the Configuration of a New Edge Gateway
- Configuring Edge Gateway Services
- Configure DHCP for an Edge Gateway
- Add a Source NAT rule to an Edge Gateway
- Add a Destination NAT rule to an Edge Gateway
- Configure the Firewall for an Edge Gateway
- Add a Firewall Rule for an Edge Gateway
- Reorder Firewall Rules for an Edge Gateway
- Enable VPN for an Edge Gateway
- Configure Public IPs for External Networks
- Creating VPN Tunnels on an Edge Gateway
- Create a VPN Tunnel In an Organization for an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network Backed by an Edge Gateway
- Create a VPN Tunnel Between Organizations
- Create a VPN Tunnel From an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network Backed by an Edge Gateway to a Remote Network
- Display Peer Settings for a VPN Tunnel to a Remote Network
- Edit VPN Settings
- Enable Static Routing on an Edge Gateway
- Managing Load Balancer Service on an Edge Gateway
- Editing Edge Gateway Properties
- Upgrade an Edge Gateway
- Delete an Edge Gateway
- View IP Use for an Edge Gateway
- Apply Syslog Server Settings to an Edge Gateway
- Add an Edge Gateway
- Managing Organization Virtual Datacenter Networks
- Adding Networks to an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Configuring Organization Virtual Datacenter Network Services
- Configure DHCP for an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Enable the Firewall for an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Add a Firewall Rule for an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Reorder Firewall Rules for an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Enable VPN for an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Create a VPN Tunnel Within an Organization
- Create a VPN Tunnel to a Remote Network
- Enable Static Routing for an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to the Same Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Add Static Routes Between vApp Networks Routed to Different Organization Virtual Datacenter Networks
- Reset an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- View vApps and vApp Templates That Use an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Delete an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- View IP Use for an Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
- Editing Organization Virtual Datacenter Network Properties
- Managing Network Pools
- Managing Cloud Cells
- Managing Service Offerings
- Register an Extension
- View or Modify Extension Properties
- Associate a Service Offering With an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Disassociate a Service Offering From an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Unregister an Extension
- Create a Service Instance
- Modify Service Instance Properties
- Add a Service Instance to a Virtual Machine
- Delete a Service Instance
- Managing Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Managing vSphere Resources
- Managing Organizations
- 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 a Group
- Delete an LDAP Group
- View Group Properties
- Roles and Rights
- Managing System Settings
- Modify General System Settings
- General System Settings
- Editing System Email Settings
- Configuring Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- Configuring the System LDAP Settings
- Customize the vCloud Director Client UI
- Configuring Public Addresses
- Configure the Account Lockout Policy
- Configure vCloud Director to use vCenter Single Sign On
- Monitoring vCloud Director
- Viewing Tasks and Events
- Monitor and Manage Blocking Tasks
- View Usage Information for a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- View Usage Information for an Organization Virtual Datacenter
- Using vCloud Director's JMX Service
- Viewing the vCloud Director Logs
- vCloud Director and Cost Reporting
- Monitoring Quarantined Files
- Roles and Rights
- Index
Select Gateway and IP Configuration Options for a New Edge Gateway
Configure the edge gateway to connect to one or more physical networks.
Procedure
1 Select a gateway configuration for the edge gateway.
Option Description
Compact
Requires less memory and compute resources.
Full
Provides increased capacity and performance. Full and Full-4
configurations provide identical security functions.
Full-4
Provides increased capacity and performance. Full and Full-4
configurations provide identical security functions. ESXi must have at least
8 vCPU available to deploy a Full-4 edge gateway with high availability
enabled .
2 (Optional) Select Enable High Availability to enable high availability on the edge gateway.
3 (Optional) Select Configure IP Settings to manually configure the external interface's IP address.
4 (Optional) Select Sub-Allocate IP Pools to allocate a set of IP addresses for gateway services to use.
5 (Optional) Select Configure Rate Limits to choose the inbound and outbound rate limits for each
externally connected interface.
6 Click Next.
Select External Networks for a New Edge Gateway
Select the external networks that the edge gateway can connect to.
Procedure
1 Select an external network from the list and click Add.
Hold down Ctrl to select multiple networks.
2 Select a network to be the Default Gateway.
3 (Optional) Select Use default gateway for DNS Relay.
4 Click Next.
Configure IP Settings on a New Edge Gateway
Configure IP settings for external networks on the new edge gateway.
This page appears only if you selected Configure IP Settings during gateway configuration.
Procedure
1 Select Manual from the drop-down menu for each external network for which to specify an IP address.
2 Type an IP address for each external network set to Manual and click Next.
Suballocate IP Pools on a New Edge Gateway
Suballocate into multiple static IP pools the IP pools that the external networks on the edge gateway
provide.
This page appears only if you selected Sub-Allocate IP Pools during gateway configuration.
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