7. Organization VDC

There are two elements. An organization – and the associated organization VDC

Former – users and stuff, latter – the actual resources.

To begin with I always create an “empty” organization VDC. Basically my own organization which I am using to publish templates, isos and the sort. So here I am going to

1. Create a Template Organization
2. Create a catalog
3. Upload an ISO to the catalog and make it public
4. Create a Customer Organization
5. Give that customer a virtual router and internal network
6. Create a VM from that public shared ISO (Linux)
7. And test

 

Click Create a new Organization

 

Fill out the company name and click Next

 

Here I am using LDAP in case I want to test something without the need of creating a new user

 

Here I am not creating local users for my Template Organization. I can always login back to the admin interface if something isn’t working using LDAP. A customer organization obviously need at least one user who then is Org. Admin.

Click Next

 

I do want to share my catalog, click Next ( It will become a public catalog after all )

 

Add your mail server details here (I don’t actually have one in my lab), click Next

 

The only thing I am changing here really is the lease time to Never Expire. It is for templates after all.

 

Click Finish

Done

 

Click Allocate resources to an organization

 

Select your Organization and click Next

 

Select your Provider VDC and click Next

 

Decide on the Allocation Model click Next (more about them HERE)

 

Configure required resource allocations and click Next

 

Add the appropriate Storage Policy and enter the amount of storage you want to assign to the organization and click Next

Select Thin- or / and Fast-Provisioning if you wish.

 

Select a network pool and click Next (the VXLAN Pool has been created automatically)

 

I will not create an Edge at this stage but will  do so when I create a real organization, click Next

 

Give the Organization VDC a name

 

Click Finish

 

Now select Organization VDCs

 

and click Templates, then change to the Catalog tab.

 

Here click the green “+” and give the catalog a name, click Next

 

It is my own catalog, so here I allow to use any storage

 

Here I give every user in my Template organization Full Control and all others Read Only. As mentioned, this is the template / iso repository everyone should have access to

 

Click Finish

 

Now select the Templates catalog

 

Move to the Media & Other tab and click Upload

 

Allow the integration plugin

 

Now select an ISO and upload it

 

This will be your now hidden progress window

 

This will succeed eventually but it will still copy the iso in the background to the right place

 

But eventually, it’ll be done

 

Now we got a public catalog with an ISO. Now it is time to create a real organization

Same process as above, create an organization and create a user (Here I created a local user)

 

Here I created an organization called Open902 Ltd. with a single user.

 

Just make sure you make note of the org URL

 

Now create an Organization VDC using the newly created Organization

All steps are identical. Here I also skip creating an Edge Gateway, as this is part of another article

 

Installation of vCD 5.5 content

1. Installation
2. vShield Manager
3. VXLAN Config
4. Initial vCD Config
5. Create a Provider vDC
6. External Network
7. Create an Organization vDC
8. vShield Edge / Org Network
9. Final Testing
10. Install a second vCloud Cell