VMware CLOUD DIRECTOR 1.0 User manual

Cloud Director User's Guide

Cloud Director 1.0

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Contents

About This Book 7

1Understanding VMware Cloud Director 9

Access the Web Console 9

Set User Preferences 10

Change Your Password 10

Set Your Microsoft Internet Explorer Options 10

Set your Mozilla Firefox Options 12

2Managing Users and Groups 13

Working with Users 13

Working with Groups 16

3Using the Resources Available to Your Organization 19

Working with Virtual Datacenters 19

Creating Organization Networks 20

Add IP Addresses to an Organization Network IP Pool 21

View IP Usage for an Organization Network 21

Configure External IP Mapping for an Organization Network 22

Reset an Organization Network 22

Working with Expired Items 23

4Working in an Organization 25

Set Up an Organization 25

Review Your Organization Profile 28

Modify Your Email Settings 28

Modify Your Organization's Policies 29

Enable Guest Personalization in Your Organization 29

Manage Users and Groups in Your Organization 30

Manage Resources in Your Organization 30

Manage Virtual Machines in Your Organization 30

Viewing Organization Log Tasks and Events 31

5Working with Catalogs 33

Add a New Catalog 33

Access a Catalog 34

Publish a Catalog 34

Share Your Catalog 34

Change the Owner of a Catalog 35

Delete a Catalog 35

Modify the Properties of Your Catalog 35

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Understanding Catalogs and Their Contents 36

Working in Published Catalogs 36

6Working with Media Files 39

Upload Media Files 39

Resume the Upload of a Media File 40

Copy Media Files to a Catalog 40

Move Media Files to Another Catalog 40

Delete Media Files 41

Modify Media File Properties 41

7Working with vApp Templates 43

Open a vApp Template 43

Add a vApp Template to My Cloud 43

Download a vApp Template 44

Upload an OVF Package as a vApp Template 44

Resume the Upload of a vApp Template 45

Add a vApp Template from a Catalog 45

Copy a vApp Template to a Published Catalog 46

Move a vApp Template to a Published Catalog 46

Delete a vApp Template 46

Save a vApp as a vApp Template 47

Modify vApp Template Properties 47

8Working with vApps 49

Add a vApp From a Catalog in Your Organization 50

Create a New vApp 50

Understanding vApps 52

Working with Networks in a vApp 53

Copy a vApp Template and Save it as a vApp 56

Edit vApp Properties 56

Delete a vApp 57

Start a vApp 57

Start a vApp with an Older Version of VMware Tools 57

Stop a vApp 58

Suspend a vApp 58

Discard the Suspended State of a vApp 58

Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine 59

Share a vApp 59

Power on and Force Recustomization of a Virtual Machine 59

Save vApp as a vApp Template to Your Catalog 60

Change the Owner of a vApp 60

Copy a vApp to Another vDC 61

Move a vApp to Another vDC 61

Delete Virtual Machines from a vApp 61

9Working with Virtual Machines 63

Open a Virtual Machine Console 63

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Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine 64

Discard the Suspended State of a Virtual Machine 64

Insert a CD/DVD 64

Eject a CD/DVD 65

Insert a Floppy 65

Eject a Floppy 65

Copy or Move a Virtual Machine to a vApp 65

Delete a Virtual Machine 66

Managing Your Virtual Machines 66

Installing VMware Tools 67

Guest Operating System Support 78

Index 89

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About This Book

The VMware Cloud Director User's Guide provides information about managing organizations, catalogs, vApps,

and virtual machines.

Intended Audience

This book is intended for anyone who wants to set up and configure organizations in VMware Cloud

Director. The information in this book is written for non-system administrators, including organization

administrators who will create and set up vApps, catalogs, and virtual machines.

VMware Technical Publications Glossary

VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions

of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, go to

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Understanding VMware Cloud

Director 1

VMware® Cloud Director has components that are visible to and are used by organization administrators,

catalog authors, vApp authors, and vApp users. They access the components from a role-based, Web console.

Cloud Director provides the interface, automation, and management features that allow enterprises and service

providers to supply vSphere resources as a Web-based service. The system administrator creates the

organization and assigns resources. After the organization is created, the system administrator emails the

organization's URL to the administrator assigned to the organization. Using the URL, the organization

administrator logs in to the organization and sets it up, configures resource use, adds users, and selects

organization-specific profiles and settings. Users create, use, and manage virtual machines and vApps.

Organizations are composed of these components.

nvApps, which are composed of one or more virtual machines that communicate over networks and use

resources and services.

nUsers and groups, which define the users and groups that belong to an organization.

nOrganization virtual datacenters (vDC), which is a collection of virtual resources that are assigned to an

organization by the system administrator. An organization can have multiple organization vDCs.

nCatalogs, which is a container for these components.

nvApp templates

nMedia files (floppy disks and ISO images)

Each organization has a unique login URL, and locally-created and LDAP-imported users exist and operate

only in this organization. The settings in each organization are independent from settings made to other

organizations. An exception is SMTP settings that can be made on a per-organization or by inheriting the

settings in Cloud Director's default SMTP server.

This chapter includes the following topics:

n“Access the Web Console,” on page 9

n“Set User Preferences,” on page 10

n“Change Your Password,” on page 10

n“Set Your Microsoft Internet Explorer Options,” on page 10

n“Set your Mozilla Firefox Options,” on page 12

Access the Web Console

You can use the URL that you received from the system administrator to log in to the organization and access

the Web console.

You are an organization administrator.

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Procedure

1 In a browser, type the URL of your organization and press Enter.

2 In User name, type your user name.

3 In Password, type your password.

4 Click Login.

What to do next

In the Home page of your organization, you can click the Set up this organization link. See “Set Up an

Organization,” on page 25 for more information.

Set User Preferences

You can set certain display and system alerts preferences that take effect every time you log in to the system.

Procedure

1 In the title bar of the Web console, click Preferences.

2 Click the Defaults tab.

3 Select the page to display when you log in.

4 Select the number of days or hours before a runtime lease expires that you want to receive an email

notification.

5 Select the number of days or hours before a storage lease expires that you want to receive an email

notification.

6 Click OK.

Change Your Password

You can change your default password.

Procedure

1 Log in to your organization.

2 In the title bar of the Web console, click Preferences.

3 On the Change Password tab, type your current password, type your new password, and retype your

new password.

4 Click OK.

Set Your Microsoft Internet Explorer Options

These options help you display and use Cloud Director correctly in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

You have the following.

nAt least Internet Explorer 7.

nSSL 3.0 Encryption

nTLS 1.0 Encryption

Procedure

1 In Internet Explorer, select Tools > Internet Options.

2 Click the Security tab.

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