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VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94304 www.vmware.com Contents About This Book 7 1 Understanding 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 2 Managing Users and Groups 13 Working with Users 13 Working with Groups 16 3 Using 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 4 Working 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 5 Working 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 VMware, Inc. 3 Understanding Catalogs and Their Contents 36 Working in Published Catalogs 36 6 Working 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 7 Working 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 8 Working 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 9 Working with Virtual Machines 63 Open a Virtual Machine Console 63 Cloud Director User's Guide 4 VMware, Inc. 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 Contents VMware, Inc. 5 Cloud Director User's Guide 6 VMware, Inc. 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 http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs. Document Feedback VMware welcomes your suggestions for improving our documentation. If you have comments, send your feedback to docfeedback@vmware.com. Technical Support and Education Resources The following technical support resources are available to you. To access the current version of this book and other books, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs. Online and Telephone Support To use online support to submit technical support requests, view your product and contract information, and register your products, go to http://www.vmware.com/support. Customers with appropriate support contracts should use telephone support for the fastest response on priority 1 issues. Go to http://www.vmware.com/support/phone_support.html. Support Offerings To find out how VMware support offerings can help meet your business needs, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/services. VMware Professional Services VMware Education Services courses offer extensive hands-on labs, case study examples, and course materials designed to be used as on-the-job reference tools. Courses are available onsite, in the classroom, and live online. For onsite pilot programs and implementation best practices, VMware Consulting VMware, Inc. 7 Services provides offerings to help you assess, plan, build, and manage your virtual environment. To access information about education classes, certification programs, and consulting services, go to http://www.vmware.com/services. Cloud Director User's Guide 8 VMware, Inc. 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. n vApps, which are composed of one or more virtual machines that communicate over networks and use resources and services. n Users and groups, which define the users and groups that belong to an organization. n Organization 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. n Catalogs, which is a container for these components. n vApp templates n Media 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. VMware, Inc. 9 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. n At least Internet Explorer 7. n SSL 3.0 Encryption n TLS 1.0 Encryption Procedure 1 In Internet Explorer, select Tools > Internet Options. 2 Click the Security tab. 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[...]... audit Cloud Directory activities Cloud Director tasks are long-running operations and their status changes as the task progresses For example, a task's status generally starts as Running When the task finishes, its status changes to Successful or Error Cloud Director events are one-time occurrence that indicate an important part of an operation or a significant state change for a Cloud Director object Cloud. .. deletion option is selected Procedure 1 Select My Cloud > Expired Items 2 Click the Expired vApp Templates tab 3 Right-click on a vApp template, select Delete or Renew, and click OK The restored vApp templates appears in the vApp Templates tab VMware, Inc 23 Cloud Director User's Guide 24 VMware, Inc Working in an Organization 4 Most operations in Cloud Director occur in an organization The system administrator... bypassed by the Internet Explorer proxy server VMware, Inc 11 Cloud Director User's Guide Set your Mozilla Firefox Options These options and settings help you display and use Cloud Director correctly in Mozilla Firefox Prerequisites Firefox must be able to access the vDC You have the following n At least Firefox 3.x n SSL 3.0 Encryption n TLS 1.0 Encryption Procedure 1 In Firefox, select Tools > Options... In Cloud Director, click Administer to add, delete, and modify users and groups These default roles exist in Cloud Director Organization administrator Administers the organization Catalog Author Creates and publishes new catalogs vApp Author Creates vApps by using the contents of a catalog vApp User Uses vApps created by others Console Access Only Only views the state and properties of machines in Cloud. .. organization should have at least one local, non-LDAP, organization administrator account, so that user can log in even if the LDAP service is unavailable VMware, Inc 25 Cloud Director User's Guide 3 Configure Email Preferences on page 27 Cloud Director requires an SMTP server to send user notification and system alert emails An organization can use the system email settings or use its own email settings... catalog Procedure 1 Click Administration 2 In the left pane, select Members > Lost & Found 3 Select a user from the list and click Delete Cloud Director deletes all the vApps that are owned by this user, and the user is deleted VMware, Inc 15 Cloud Director User's Guide Deactivate or Activate Users Deactivated users cannot log in to the Web console You must reactivate users before they can log in You... catalog When you publish your catalog, its contents are available to all organizations in Cloud Director You can create the catalog and publish it later NOTE This option might be unavailable, depending on your organizational settings 6 Click Next 7 Review the summary and click Finish VMware, Inc 33 Cloud Director User's Guide Access a Catalog You can access a catalog in your organization or in a published... the URL of your organization from the system administrator, you must set it up On the Cloud Director Home page, click Set up this organization You are an organization administrator Procedure 1 Change the Organization Full Name on page 26 You can change the full name of an organization This name appears in the Cloud Director application header when users log in 2 Add Local Users to the Organization on... pane, select Cloud Resources > Virtual Datacenter A list of vDCs in your organization appears in the right pane 3 For details about a vDC, right-click, and select Open The vApps, vApp templates, media, and networks attached to this vDC are displayed When you click through each tab, you can right click on an object to see the operations you can complete VMware, Inc 19 Cloud Director User's Guide Review... Organization Network You can view a list of the IP addresses from a network IP pool that are currently in use You are an organization administrator VMware, Inc 21 Cloud Director User's Guide Procedure 1 Click Administration 2 In the left pane, select Cloud Resources > Networks 3 Select an organization network, right-click, and select IP Allocations Configure External IP Mapping for an Organization Network . this document, see http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs. EN -00 0283 -00 Cloud Director User's Guide 2 VMware, Inc. You can find the most up-to-date technical. Preferences 10 Change Your Password 10 Set Your Microsoft Internet Explorer Options 10 Set your Mozilla Firefox Options 12 2 Managing Users and Groups 13 Working