IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director vRealize Automation 6.
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Contents IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Updated Information 5 Using the Goal Navigator 5 Provisioning with vCloud Air or vCloud Director vApps About vApps 4 6 7 vApp and vApp Component vCloud Concepts 7 Comparing Multi-Machine Services and vApps 9 Integration Considerations for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Configuring IaaS for vApps 9 10 Configuring IaaS for vCloud Air or vCloud Director Checklist 10 Using Custom Properties in vApp Machine Provisioning, Blueprints,
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director describes how to integrate vCloud Director or vCloud Air in an existing VMware vRealize ™ Automation deployment.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Updated Information This IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director is updated with each release of the product or when necessary. This table provides the update history of the IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director . Revision Description 001641-04 n Updated Create a vCloud Endpoint for vCloud Air OnDemand or Subscription Gen 2 step 4.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director After you select a goal, you navigate between the pages needed to accomplish the goal by clicking each step. The goal navigator does not validate that you completed a step, or force you to complete steps in a particular order. The steps are listed in the recommended sequence. You can return to each goal as many times as needed. For each step, the goal navigator provides a description of the task you need to perform on the corresponding page.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director About vApps A vApp is a container object composed of one or more component machines that can be provisioned and managed as a single entity. vApps combine software-defined services when used with vRealize Automation to provide a single selfservice portal for multiple provisioning platforms. When you request a vApp from vRealize Automation, it provisions the vApp and its component machines in your organization's virtual data center.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director vApp Component Machine A machine that is managed in vRealize Automation as part of a vCloud Director or vCloud Air vApp. A vApp can include multiple component machines provisioned using the same vApp component blueprint or different vApp component blueprints. Mapping Between vCloud Air or vCloud Director and vRealize Automation Administrators can provision several machines with a single request using either vApps or multiplemachine services. Table 1.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Comparing Multi-Machine Services and vApps You can use vRealize Automation multi-machine services or vApps to group component machines. Table 2. Comparison of Multi-Machine Service and vApp (vCloud) Features vRealize Automation Multi-Machine Service vApp (vCloud) Create a multi-machine blueprint that references individual machine blueprints in vRealize Automation. Use existing vApp templates created in vCloud Director or vCloud Air.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Configuring IaaS for vApps Administrators and managers bring resources under vRealize Automation management, allocate resources for users, and prepare for machine provisioning. Configuring IaaS for vCloud Air or vCloud Director Checklist IaaS administrators, fabric administrators, tenant administrators, and business group managers perform required and optional configurations to fully implement and customize vRealize Automation.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Different custom properties are used for different provisioning methods, types of machines, and machine options.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 3 Build profile, specified on a vApp blueprint 4 vApp blueprint 5 Business group 6 Compute resources 7 Reservations 8 Endpoint 9 Runtime specified on a vApp 10 Runtime specified on a component machine Any runtime property takes higher precedence and overrides a property from any source. A custom property is marked as runtime if any of the following conditions exist.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Store User Credentials for vCloud Endpoints An IaaS administrator stores administrator-level credentials so that vRealize Automation can communicate with your vCloud endpoints. Because the same credentials can be used for multiple endpoints, credentials are managed separately from endpoints and are associated when endpoints are created or edited. Credentials that are used to manage endpoints require administrator privileges.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director For the same vCloud Director instance, you should not set up both organization-specific endpoints and single endpoints that access all organizations. vRealize Automation uses a proxy agent to manage vSphere resources. Create a vCloud Endpoint for vCloud Air OnDemand or Subscription Gen 2 An IaaS administrator can create a vCloud endpoint for vCloud Air OnDemand or Subscription Gen 2.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 6 Enter the organization name for your vCD region in the Organization text box. The organization name is a unique ID, used to identify your specific environment in your OnDemand region. It is a randomly generated key, similar to a license key format. The organization value is displayed as the end portion of the URL when you log in to vCloud Air OnDemand. a Log in to vCloud Air OnDemand using administrator credentials. b Select the Organization vDC.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director For information about vCloud Air Management Console, see vCloud Air documentation. To determine which vCloud Air endpoint procedure is right for you, either Gen 1 or Gen 2, see Identifying the generation of VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud being used (2120464) at http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do? language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2120464.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 5 6 Select the Credentials for the endpoint. n To connect to the vCloud Director server and specify the organization for which the user has the administrator role, use organization administrator credentials. With these credentials, the endpoint can only access the associated organization virtual datacenters. You can add endpoints for each additional organization in the vCloud Director instance to integrate with vRealize Automation.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 8 (Optional) Add any custom properties. 9 Click OK. 10 Right-click the new endpoint name on the Endpoints page. 11 Select Data Collection > Start. 12 Allow data collection to finish. What to do next Create a Fabric Group. Create a vCloud Endpoint for vCloud Director An IaaS administrator can create a vCloud endpoint to connect to a vCloud Director server. ® For information about Organization vDCs, see VMware vCloud Director documentation.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 6 If you are configured as an organization administrator, you can enter a vCloud Director organization name in the Organization text box. You can specify a vCloud Director endpoint using the Organization text box or, if you have implemented vCloud Director in a private cloud, you can leave the Organization text block empty to allow the application to discover all the available Organization vDCs.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 4. CSV File Fields and Their Order for Importing Endpoints Field Description InterfaceType (Required) You can upload multiple types of endpoints in a single file. n AmazonEC2 n Openstack n vCloud n vCO n CiscoUCS n DellIdrac n HPIlo n NetAppOnTap n SCVMM n KVM n vSphere Address (Required for all interface types except Amazon AWS) URL for the endpoint.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 5 Click Open. A CSV file opens that contains a list of endpoints in the following format: InterfaceType,Address,Credentials,Name,Description vCloud,https://abxpoint2vco,svc-admin,abxpoint2vco,abxpoint 6 Click Import. You can edit and manage your endpoints through the vRealize Automation console. Create a Fabric Group An IaaS administrator can organize virtualization compute resources and cloud endpoints into fabric groups by type and intent.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Configure Machine Prefixes Fabric administrators create machine prefixes that are used to create names for machines provisioned through vRealize Automation. Tenant administrators and business group managers select these machine prefixes and assign them to provisioned machines through blueprints and business group defaults. A prefix is a base name to be followed by a counter of a specified number of digits.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Create a Business Group for vCloud Provisioning Tenant administrators create business groups to associate a set of services and resources to a set of users, often corresponding to an organizational business unit. Users must belong to a business group to request machines. Prerequisites n Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator. n Request a machine prefix from a fabric administrator. See Configure Machine Prefixes.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 9 Add users to your business group. To support vCloud Director integration, the same business group members in the vRealize Automation business group must also be members of the vCloud Director organization. You do not have to specify users at this time. You can create empty business groups to populate later. a Type a user name or group name in the Support role search box and press Enter.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director n The vCloud Director or vCloud Air organization must be enabled. n The reservation must have capacity remaining in its machine quota or have an unlimited quota. The allocated machine quota includes only machines that are powered on. For example, if a reservation has a quota of 50, and 40 machines have been provisioned but only 20 of them are powered on, the reservation’s quota is 40 percent allocated, not 80 percent.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director n If multiple storage paths have the same priority, machines are distributed among storage paths by using round-robin scheduling. Create a vCloud Reservation Before members of a business group can request vApp machines, fabric administrators must allocate resources to them by creating a vCloud reservation. Each business group must have at least one reservation for its members to provision machines of that type.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Procedure 1 Select Infrastructure > Reservations > Reservations. 2 Select New Reservation > Cloud and select the type of reservation you are creating. Select Cloud > vApp (vCloud). 3 (Optional) Select an existing reservation from the Copy from existing reservation drop-down menu. Data from the reservation you chose appears, and you can make changes as required for your new reservation.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Prerequisites Specify vCloud Reservation Information. Procedure 1 Click the Resources tab. 2 Specify the amount of memory, in GB, to be allocated to this reservation from the Memory table. 3 Configure a storage profile in the Storage table. a Select a storage path. b Type a value in the This Reservation Reserved text box to specify how much storage to allocate to this reservation. c Specify the priority for the storage path.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 3 Use the sliders to set thresholds for resource allocation. 4 Type one or more user email addresses or group names to receive alert notifications in the Recipients text box. Press Enter to separate multiple entries. 5 Select Send alerts to group manager to include group managers in the email alerts. 6 Choose a reminder frequency (days). 7 Click OK.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director n Image.WIM.Path As another example, the vApp property set contains the following custom properties that can be used for vApp provisioning: n VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Name n VCloud.Template.MakeIdenticalCopy n VMware.SCSI.Type n Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdmin n Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdminPassword n Sysprep.Identification.JoinDomain Fabric administrators can create their own property sets and add them to vRealize Automation.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 4 Insert a element in the element. 5 Define the attributes of the custom property to include in the property set. If you do not include the DefaultValue attribute, no default value is stored.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Build profiles are available to tenant administrators and business group managers of all tenants. You can create your build profile by adding custom properties individually, by loading property sets that contain multiple custom properties, or by using a combination of the two methods. Prerequisites Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a fabric administrator. Procedure 1 Select Infrastructure > Blueprints > Build Profiles.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Tenant administrators and business group managers can now select your build profile and include it in their blueprints. Configuring Reservation Policies When a user requests a machine, it can be provisioned on any reservation of the appropriate type that has sufficient capacity for the machine. You can apply a reservation policy to a blueprint to restrict the machines provisioned from that blueprint to a subset of available reservations.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Procedure 1 Create a Reservation Policy Fabric administrators use reservation policies to group similar reservations together. Create the reservation policy tag first, then add the policy to reservations to allow a tenant administrator or business group manager to use the reservation policy in a blueprint.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director . Storage Reservation Policies for vApps Fabric administrators create storage reservation policies to allow tenant administrators and business group managers to assign the volumes of a virtual machine to different storage profiles. When you assign the volumes of a virtual machine to a different storage profile, tenant administrators and business group managers can control and use storage space more effectively.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 2 Assign a Storage Reservation Policy to a Datastore After the storage reservation policy is created, populate it with datastores. A datastore can belong to only one storage reservation policy. Add multiple datastores to create a group of datastores for use with a blueprint.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Tenant administrators and business group managers can now use your storage reservation policy in blueprints. Cost Profiles Fabric administrators can associate compute resources and physical machines with cost profiles to enable calculation of a machine’s cost. The cost is displayed to machine owners, requesters, approvers, and administrators at various points in the request and provisioning life cycle.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 5.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 6. Cost Displayed During the Request and Provisioning Life Cycle Life Cycle Stage Value Displayed for Cost Viewing the catalog item details before a request Projected costs based on the cost profile, the values for machine resources specified in the component blueprints, lease duration specified in the vApp blueprint, and the daily costs specified in the component blueprints and vApp blueprint.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Configure a Cost Profile Fabric administrators can create cost profiles and associate them with compute resources to enable calculation of a machine’s cost. Prerequisites Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a fabric administrator. Procedure 1 Create a Cost Profile Fabric administrators create cost profiles to define daily costs for memory, storage, and CPU for compute resources.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Prerequisites Create a Cost Profile. Procedure 1 Select Infrastructure > Compute Resources > Compute Resources. 2 Point to a compute resource and click Edit. 3 Click the Configuration tab. 4 Select a cost profile from the Cost Profile drop-down menu. The costs for memory, storage, and CPU appear, and the cost for each datastore is populated with the storage cost from the cost profile, unless a storage cost profile is applied to that datastore.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 2 Click New Storage Cost Profile. 3 Enter a name and, optionally, a description. 4 Type a value for the daily cost per gigabyte of storage in the Storage Cost (per GB) text box. 5 Click the Save icon ( ). Assign a Storage Cost Profile to a Datastore Fabric administrators can assign a storage cost profile to a datastore to apply those costs to all machines provisioned on that datastore. Prerequisites Create a Storage Cost Profile.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Templates that are to be shared across organizations must be public. Note When you create a vApp blueprint by cloning from a vCloud Director template, that template's unique identifier (UID) becomes associated with the blueprint. When the blueprint is published to the vRealize Automation catalog and used in the provisioning and data collection processes, the associated vCloud Director template is recognized.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director A vApp (vCloud) blueprint and its vApp component (vCloud) blueprints provision by using cloning. The vApp template that you select as the vApp blueprint is the primary source of information for provisioning vApps from the vRealize Automation console. The vApp template determines how many machines to provision per vApp. It also determines which properties to apply to the machines being provisioned.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Creating a vApp Component (vCloud) Blueprint Machine blueprints determine a machine's attributes, the manner in which it is provisioned, and its policy and management settings. A tenant administrator or business group manager creates a vApp Component (vCloud) blueprint for each component machine to be included in the vApp (vCloud) blueprint. The vApp component blueprint must exist before the vApp blueprint can be configured.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 2 Specify vApp Component Build Information The build information settings determine how a machine is provisioned. Machine resource settings control the resources that a machine that is provisioned by the blueprint consumes. 3 Add vApp Component Blueprint Custom Properties Adding custom properties to a blueprint gives you detailed control over provisioned machines.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Your blueprint is not finished. Do not navigate away from this page. Specify vApp Component Build Information The build information settings determine how a machine is provisioned. Machine resource settings control the resources that a machine that is provisioned by the blueprint consumes. Prerequisites Specify vApp Component Blueprint Information. Procedure 1 Click the Build Information tab.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 8 Specify memory settings for provisioned machines. a Enter the minimum amount of memory in the Minimum text box. If you only provide a minimum, this number becomes the value for all machines provisioned from this blueprint. b 9 (Optional) Enter the maximum amount of memory in the Maximum text box to allow users to select their own settings within the range that you provide. Specify storage settings for provisioned machines.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Add vApp Component Blueprint Custom Properties Adding custom properties to a blueprint gives you detailed control over provisioned machines. Prerequisites Specify vApp Component Build Information. Procedure 1 Click the Properties tab. 2 (Optional) Select one or more build profiles from the Build profiles menu. Build profiles contain groups of custom properties. Fabric administrators can create build profiles.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 7. Custom Properties for vApp Blueprints (Continued) Custom Property Description VirtualMachine.DiskN.IsFixed Disables the editing of a specific disk when reconfiguring a machine. Set to True to disable display of the edit capacity option for a specific volume. The True value is case-sensitive. The N value is the 0-based index of the disk. Alternatively, you can set the VirtualMachine.DiskN.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 7. Custom Properties for vApp Blueprints (Continued) Custom Property Description VCloud.Lease.Sync.TimeBufferMins Specifies a threshold integer value for a compute resource such that lease synchronization between vCloud Director and vRealize Automation will only occur for vCloud Director or ® VMware vCloud Air™-provisioned machines that are set to ® expire in vCloud Director or VMware vCloud Air™ in that time period.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Entitlements control which operations specific users can access. Blueprint actions control which machine operations can be performed on machines provisioned from a blueprint. Note The options that appear on the Actions tab depend on your platform and any customizations made in your vRealize Automation instance. Prerequisites Add vApp Component Blueprint Custom Properties. Procedure 1 Click the Actions tab.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director If a lease length conflict is found, the lease value is synchronized to match the lease length defined invRealize Automation. This prevents provisioned machines from expiring before the lease period that is defined in vRealize Automation is reached. The scheduled workflow checks the lease length values for provisioned machines every 45 minutes. To overwrite the 45 minute setting, reinstall the schedule by using repoutil. You can also use the VCloud.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 4 Configure vApp Blueprint Actions Use blueprint actions and entitlements together to maintain detailed control over provisioned machines. What to do next Publish the blueprint to create a catalog item. See Publish a vApp Blueprint. Specify vApp Blueprint Information Blueprint information settings include a name and description, machine prefix information, number of days after expiration to archive the machine, and a daily cost assignment.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 10 Specify the number of days to archive machines provisioned from this blueprint in the Archive (days) text box. Enter 0 if you do not want to archive machines. 11 (Optional) Set the daily cost of the machine by typing the amount in the Cost (daily) text box. This value should include any extra cost for the vApp as a whole in addition to the cost for the individual vApp component machines. Your blueprint is not finished.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 10 (Optional) Specify the lease settings for provisioned machines, or leave blank for no expiration date. a Enter the minimum number of lease days in the Minimum text box. If you only provide a minimum, this number becomes the value for all machines provisioned from this blueprint. b (Optional) Enter the maximum number of lease days in the Maximum text box to allow users to select their own settings within the range that you provide.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 8. Custom Properties for vApp Blueprints Custom Property Description Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdmin Specifies a user name with administrator-level access to the target domain in Active Directory. Do not include the user domain in the credentials that you send to vCloud Director. Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdminPassword Specifies the password to associate with the Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdmin property. Sysprep.Identification.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 8. Custom Properties for vApp Blueprints (Continued) Custom Property Description VCloud.Lease.Sync.TimeBufferMins Specifies a threshold integer value for a compute resource such that lease synchronization between vCloud Director and vRealize Automation will only occur for vCloud Director or ® VMware vCloud Air™-provisioned machines that are set to ® expire in vCloud Director or VMware vCloud Air™ in that time period.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Entitlements control which operations specific users can access. Blueprint actions control which machine operations can be performed on machines provisioned from a blueprint. Note The options that appear on the Actions tab depend on your platform and any customizations made in your vRealize Automation instance. Prerequisites Add vApp Blueprint Custom Properties. Procedure 1 Click the Actions tab.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director What to do next Tenant administrators, business group managers, and service architects configure your catalog item and associate it with a service so that entitled users can request it from the catalog. For information about configuring and managing the catalog, see Tenant Administration.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 9. Custom Properties for Networking Configuration Custom Property Description VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Address Specifies the IP address of network device N in a machine provisioned with a static IP address. VirtualMachine.NetworkN.MacAddressType Indicates whether the MAC address of network device N is generated or user-defined (static). This property is available for cloning. The default value is generated.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 9. Custom Properties for Networking Configuration (Continued) Custom Property Description VirtualMachine.NetworkN.PortID Specifies the port ID to use for network device N when using a dvPort group with a vSphere distributed switch. VirtualMachine.NetworkN custom properties are designed to be specific to individual blueprints and machines.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 9. Custom Properties for Networking Configuration (Continued) Custom Property Description VCNS.LoadBalancerEdgePool.Names.name Specifies the vCloud Networking and Security load balancing pools to which the virtual machine is assigned during provisioning. The virtual machine is assigned to all service ports of all specified pools. The value is an edge/pool name or a list of edge/pool names separated by commas. Names are casesensitive.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Reservation policies provide an optional and helpful means of controlling how reservation requests are processed. A reservation policy is often used to collect resources into groups for different service levels, or to make a specific type of resource easily available for a particular purpose.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Assigning Datastores to Machine Volumes Storage assignment is determined by reservations. Tenant administrators and business group managers can further restrict storage volume assignment by specifying a single datastore or a storage reservation policy that represents multiple datastores to a volume. With the multi-storage feature you can assign the volumes of a virtual machine to different datastores for the vSphere, KVM (RHEV), and SCVMM platforms.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Avoid specifying a storage path and a storage reservation policy for the same volume. If you must specify a storage path and a storage reservation policy for the same volume, the storage path takes precedence over the storage reservation policy.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Add a Storage Volume to a Component Blueprint Tenant administrators and business group managers can add one or more storage volumes to a component machine. Prerequisites n Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator or business group manager. n Verify that the vApp component blueprint is available. See Create a vApp Component Blueprint. n Verify that all disks for the component machine point to the same storage policy.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director The following high-level overview is the sequence of tasks required to enable machine users to connect using RDP. 1 A system administrator creates a custom RDP file and places it in the Website\Rdp subdirectory of the vRealize Automation installation directory. Provide fabric administrators, tenant administrators, and business group managers with the full pathname for the custom RDP file so that it can be included in blueprints.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Configure Connections Using RDP Tenant administrators and business group managers can use custom properties to configure RDP settings. Note If your fabric administrator creates a build profile that contains the required custom properties and you include it in your blueprint, you do not need to individually add the required custom properties to the blueprint.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director d (Optional) Select the Prompt user check box to require the user to provide a value when they request a machine. If you choose to prompt users for a value, any value you provide for the custom property is presented to them as the default. If you do not provide a default, users cannot continue with the machine request until they provide a value for the custom property. e 6 Click the Save icon ( ). Click OK.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Enable Connections Using SSH Tenant administrators and business group managers can use a custom property to enable users to connect remotely to their Linux machines using SSH. Note If your fabric administrator creates a build profile that contains the required custom properties and you include it in your blueprint, you do not need to individually add the required custom properties to the blueprint.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director 10 (Optional) Add the VirtualMachine.Admin.NameCompletion custom property. Specifies the domain name to include in the fully qualified domain name of the machine that the RDP or SSH files generate for the user interface options Connect Using RDP or Connect Using SSH option. For example, set the value to myCompany.com to generate the fully qualified domain name my-machine-name.myCompany.com in the RDP or SSH file. 11 Click the Save icon ( ).
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 10. Property and Template Settings for Making an Identical Copy Make Identical Copy Using a Blueprint Property Make Identical Copy Using a vApp Template Result True Ignored Clone from the vApp template only. n Do not configure networks. n Do not customize hardware. n Do not change the computer name. n Do not join vApp virtual machines to the AD domain.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 11. Monitoring and Log Display Options Objective Role Menu Sequence and Description Display information about actions that have occurred, such as the action type, date and time of the action, and so on. IaaS administrator Display default log information or control display content using column and filter options. Select Infrastructure > Monitoring > Audit Logs.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Table 12. MasterWorkflow States (Continued) Workflow State Work Item Description RegisterMachine RegisterVM The existing machine is registered. Attributes are set in the hypervisor. For information about registering machines, see vSphere product documentation. BuildingMachine MachineProvisioned The machine build is about to start. The provisioning workflow that is specified in the blueprint is being created.
