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VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan
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VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

VMware vCloud Director is an enterprise software solution that enables the building of secure, private clouds by pooling together infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. The tool enables self-service via a web interface to reduce the management overhead and offers amazing possibilities for production and development environments. Thus, the tool will ensure efficient management of resources with data center efficiency and business agility. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" will cover a lot of ground, ranging from easy to complex recipes. It will not only dive into networks, data-stores, and vApps, but also cover vCloud design improvements, troubleshooting, and the vCloud API. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" is split into different sections, each of which deals with a special topic in vCloud - from networks, to vApps, to storage and design. This book contains over 80 recipes with the difficulty levels ranging from simple to very advanced. You will learn how to automate vCloud easily and quickly with the API, and also learn how to isolate a vApp and still fully access it without risking the network. Design considerations that need to be addressed while deploying the vCloud and more will also be looked into. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" will make your life as an admin a lot easier by providing you with some good recipes that have been proven to work in small to large enterprises.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware vCloud Director Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Appendix
Index

Sharing a vApp


So your colleague created a vApp and you can't see or use it? You can use the sharing option to share vApps with other users or groups.

Getting ready

We need one or more vApps as well as two users. The users can be local users or LDAP users, and one must at least be a vApp Author.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to your organization.

  2. Right-click on the vApp you would like to share and select Share.

  3. The properties of the vApp open up on the Share page.

  4. Now click on Add Members.

  5. You can now share this vApp with everyone in this organization or just a specific group or user. Take note that there is a search field.

  6. Choose the Access Level option you want to give this user, as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. Select the user and click on Add.

  8. Click on OK.

  9. You can still change the access level of the user or group.

  10. Click on OK to close the properties' window.

  11. Now log in as the other user. You should now see and have access to the vApp:

How it works...

By default, only the creator and the Org Admin have...