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
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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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