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“Set a Limit on Number of Virtual Machines in a Virtual Data Center,” on page 16
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“Change Virtual Data Center Name or Description,” on page 16
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“Delete a Virtual Data Center,” on page 16
Create a Virtual Data Center
In the Dedicated Cloud service, you must create a virtual data center before you can use the infrastructure
resources you have purchased. You can group your resources into one or more virtual data centers,
depending upon your requirements. For example, you can create one virtual data center for your entire
company or you can create different virtual data centers for different departments, project teams, or
geographic sites.
When you create a virtual data center, it is set up with compute, storage, and network resources. If you
allocate one or more public IP addresses to the virtual data center, an additional network is created that can
provide Internet access to virtual machines connected to it.
NOTE For information about configuring networking and gateways for virtual data centers, see the vCloud
Air Networking Guide.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have resources and virtual infrastructure administrator privileges in the
Dedicated Cloud service where you will create the virtual data center. You cannot have multiple virtual
data centers with a Virtual Private Cloud service, because the Virtual Private Cloud service is provided
as a single virtual data center.
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If you have multiple regions, verify where you want to add a new virtual data center.
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If you want to provide access to the Internet to any virtual machines in the data center, verify that you
have public IP addresses available. Allocate IP addresses to the virtual data center only if you want to
create virtual machines that need access to the Internet. If you allocate IP addresses, they are reserved
for the virtual data center.
Procedure
1 Sign in to the vCloud Air console.
2 Select the region where you will create the virtual data center.
3 Click Add a Virtual Datacenter.
4 In the Create Virtual Datacenter pop-up menu, select a cloud.
You can view available CPU, memory, and storage resources for each service. You can also view the
number of unused public IP addresses.
5 Select the resources to use.
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To use all the available resources for your new virtual datacenter, select Use all of these resources,
and click Create Virtual Datacenter.
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To use some of the available resources for your new virtual data center, select Use some of these
resources, and click Next.
6 Type a name for the virtual data center.
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