VMware vCloud Director Build From Scratch – 2

In this article ,we will see the remaining vCloud director’s quick setup which we have left out in the last article.We have  already seen  that how to attach the vCloud director to VMware vCenter server and creating the provider vDC. Here we will be seeing the external networking part and creating the new organization. once you have created the organization, we need to allocate the set of resources to it. For each organization ,there will be the unique URL to access it .Cloud end users will be just getting the access to organization vDC and  the resources that allocated to it.

1. Attach a vCenter  – Completed 
2. Create a Provider vDC – Completed 
3. Create an external network
4. Create a network pool
5. Create a new organization
6. Allocate the resources to an organization
7. Add a Catalog to an organization

Create an external network

1. Login to the vCloud director web portal and click on “Create an external network”.

2.Select the vSphere network which is going to be used for provider vDC’s external network.

3.Click on “Add network” and enter the subnet,gateway,DNS and static network pool range information.

Here is the external network information.

4.Name the external network which you have just created ,

5.Click Finish to complete the wizard.

6.We have just completed the networking part of vCloud director.

Create a new organization

1.Click on the “Create a new Organization” .

As i said ,each organization will have unique URL which will be given to cloud end user to manage their virtual infrastructure.

2. LDAP options. Sorry! I will be using only local user accounts.

3.Add a local user .

4.I have added two users with different access.

5.Set the Catalog settings for organization .

6.Settings the email preference.

7.Set the policies  for the organization.

8.Review the summary and click finish.

We have successfully created the new organization.

1. Attach a vCenter  – Completed 
2. Create a Provider vDC – Completed 
3. Create an external network
4. Create a network pool
5. Create a new organization
6. Allocate the resources to an organization
7. Add a Catalog to an organization

What’s next ? We need to allocate the resources to the organization . Click on next page to continue …

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