VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

Keeping your templates under control

If you have the need to keep a very tight control over your templates, this recipe shows how you can easily achieve it.

Getting ready

To implement this recipe, we need to create a new organization, so we also need to create an OvDC. However, we don't really need any resources, so we could share the PvDC with some other organization.

I would recommend using a dedicated storage profile for this new organization (see the How it works... section).

How to do it...

We are now creating the ADMIN Organization with all the bits and pieces that we need. I personally always call it ADMIN (in caps) so it sticks out.

Creating the ADMIN Organization

Perform the following steps for creating the ADMIN Organization:

1. Log in to vCloud ...