vCloud Organizations

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A vCloud organization is a unit of administration for a collection of users, groups, and computing resources. Organizations provide catalogs to store vApp templates and media files. The members of an organization can use the vApp templates and media files in the catalog to create their own vApps.
A virtual data center (vDC) provides virtual computing resources to a vCloud organization. You can provision, run, and store virtual systems in a virtual data center. A vCloud organization can have multiple virtual data centers.
Provision vApp from Template
From the vCloud Organization level, you can provision vApps from templates which are stored in catalogs.
Follow these steps:
  1. Click Resources.
    The Resources page appears.
  2. Open the Explore pane.
    Available groups, services, and systems appear.
  3. Expand the VMware vCloud folder.
    The vCloud folder structure appears.
  4. Right-click the organization object.
    The Provisioning pop-up menu appears.
  5. Click Provision vApp from Template.
    The Provision new vApp from Template dialog appears.
  6. Specify Name, vApp Template, Deployment lease, and Storage lease. Click OK.
    Server Automation
     creates a vApp in the organization.
Operations on vApps in vCloud
From the vCloud Organization level, you can provision vApps from templates which are stored in catalogs.
Follow these steps:
  1. Click Resources.
    The Resources page appears.
  2. Open the Explore pane.
    Available groups, services, and systems appear.
  3. Expand the VMware vCloud folder.
    The vCloud folder structure appears.
  4. Right-click a vApp object.
    The Management pop-up menu appears.
  5. Select one of the available operations.
    • Power On vApp
      Powers On the vCloud vApp.
    • Power Off vApp
      Powers Off the vCloud vApp.
    • Reset VApp
      Resets the vCloud vApp.
    • Suspend vApp
      Suspends the vCloud vApp.
    • Resume vApp
      Resumes the vCloud vApp.
    • Clone vApp
      Creates a vCloud vApp from an existing vApp.
    • Move vApp
      Moves a vCloud vApp to another virtual data center.
    • Delete vApp
      Deletes the vCloud vApp.
    • Modify vApp Lease
      Modifies the deployment and storage lease.
    Specify the required parameter values and click OK.
  6. Click Events to verify the new status of the vApp.
    The list of events appears.