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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Overview of vCloud Director Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade
- vCloud Director Architecture
- Configuration Planning
- vCloud Director Hardware and Software Requirements
- Browsers That vCloud Director Supports
- Summary of Network Configuration Requirements for vCloud Director
- Installing and Configuring a vCloud Director Database
- Create SSL Certificates
- Installing and Configuring vShield Manager
- Installing and Configuring an AMQP Broker
- Download and Install the VMware Public Key
- Creating a vCloud Director Server Group
- Install and Configure vCloud Director Software on the First Member of a Server Group
- Configure Network and Database Connections
- Install vCloud Director Software on Additional Members of a Server Group
- Install Microsoft Sysprep Files on the Servers
- Start or Stop vCloud Director Services
- Uninstall vCloud Director Software
- Upgrading vCloud Director
- vCloud Director Setup
- Cell Management Tool Reference
- Index
5 Copy the Sysprep binary files to the appropriate location on each vCloud Director server in the server
group.
6 Ensure that the Sysprep files are readable by the user vcloud.vcloud.
Use the Linux chown command to do this.
[root@cell1 /]# chown -R vcloud.vcloud $VCLOUD_HOME/guestcustomization
When the Sysprep files are copied to all members of the server group, you can perform guest customization
on virtual machines in your cloud. You do not need to restart vCloud Director after the Sysprep files are
copied.
Start or Stop vCloud Director Services
After you complete installation and database connection setup on a server, you can start vCloud Director
services on it. You can also stop these services if they are running.
The configuration script prompts you to start vCloud Director services. You can let the script start these
services for you, or you can start the services yourself later. These services must be running before you can
complete and initialize the installation.
vCloud Director services start whenever you reboot a server.
IMPORTANT If you are stopping vCloud Director services as part of a vCloud Director software upgrade, you
must use the cell management tool, which allows you to quiesce the cell before stopping services. See “Use
the Cell Management Tool to Quiesce and Shut Down a Server,” on page 35.
Procedure
1 Log in to the target server as root.
2 Start or stop services.
Option Action
Start services
Open a console, shell, or terminal window and run the following
command.
service vmware-vcd start
Stop services when the cell is in
use
Use the cell management tool.
Stop services when the cell is not in
use
Open a console, shell, or terminal window and run the following
command.
service vmware-vcd stop
Uninstall vCloud Director Software
Use the Linux rpm command to uninstall vCloud Director software from an individual server.
Procedure
1 Log in to the target server as root.
2 Unmount the transfer service storage, typically mounted at /opt/vmware/vcloud-
director/data/transfer.
3 Open a console, shell, or terminal window and run the rpm command.
rpm -e vmware-vcloud-director
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