6.5.1

Procedure
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Navigate to a vApp and click Edit vApp Settings.
Expand the areas of the vApp configuration that you want to edit.
Area Description
Application Properties Displays non-editable product informaion such as name, vendor, and version, and
allows specifying values for vApp custom properties.
Deployment Allows you to specify CPU and memory resources and configure IP allocation.
The available allocation schemes and protocols depend on the vApp
configuration. You can modify the configuration in the Authoring section.
Authoring Allows you to specify the vApp product information and controls the configurable
options that are available in the Deployment and Application Properties sections.
You can modify the supported IP allocation schemes and protocols, set the VM
start order, and add or reconfigure custom properties.
Configure vApp Properties
If you define a property in the Authoring section of the Edit vApp Settings dialog box, you can assign a
value to that property when you edit the vApp settings the next time. If you deployed the vApp from an
OVF, and properties were predefined in that OVF, you might be able to edit those properties as well.
In the Application properties section, you can view product information and assign values to custom
properties.
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View information that was specified in the Authoring section's Product field of the current vApp or in
the OVF package from which the vApp was deployed. You can view that information in the
Application properties section.
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Assign values to a custom property that was defined in the Authoring section's Properties field of
the current vApp or in an OVF from which the vApp was deployed.
Section 9.5 of the OVF 1.1 specification explains which product metadata can be contained in an
OVF.vCenter Server supports those metadata.
Prerequisites
Required privilege: vApp.vApp application configuration on the vApp.
Procedure
1 Navigate to a vApp in the inventory and click Edit vApp Settings.
2 If application properties are predefined for your vApp, click the Application Properties triangle to
expand the vApp properties.
3 Edit the vApp properties.
4 Click OK.
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