Manage vApps and virtual machines

Last update: March 04 2024

Manage vApps and virtual machines

A vApp is a container in Cloud Director with virtual machines grouped together to solve a specific task.

With vApp, you can manage multiple virtual machines as a single virtual machine (powered on, powered off, cloned).

Maximum size of virtual machines:

• vCPU — 72 (Platinum cluster);
• vRAM is 256GB;
• virtual disk size — 10 TB.

Create a vApp⁠

You can create a vApp from scratch or from an OVF/OVA template. From the vApp, you can create templates.

When creating a vApp, you can create a virtual machine immediately, add it to a vApp later, or move it from another vApp.

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → vApps.
4. Press NEW → New vApp.
5. Enter the name of the vApp.
6. To create a virtual machine along with the vApp, click Add virtual machine.
7. Enter Name and Computer Name.
8. If you are creating a virtual machine from a ready-made template, select From Template in the Type field.
9. Optional: to power on the virtual machine immediately after creation, check the Power on checkbox.
10. Select the OS image.
11. In the Storage Policy field, select the type of network volume.
12. Press OK.
13. Press Create. Creating a virtual machine in a vApp container will take time.

Create a virtual machine⁠

When you create a virtual machine without create vApp, Cloud Director creates a service vApp for that machine, but hides it. You can also create a virtual machine in an existing vApp.

ВМ из шаблона

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → Virtual Machines.
4. Click New VM.
5. Enter Name and Computer Name.
6. In the Type field, select From Template.
7. Optional: to power on the virtual machine immediately after creation, check the Power on checkbox.
8. In the Templates box, select a virtual machine template (OS image).
9. In the Storage Policy field, select the type of network volume.
10. Press OK.

Новая ВМ

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → Virtual Machines.
4. Click New VM.
5. Enter Name and Computer Name.
6. In the Type field, select New.
7. Optional: to power on the virtual machine immediately after creation, check the Power on checkbox.
8. In the OS family field, select the OS family.
9. In the Operating System field, select the OS version.
10. Optional: select ISO image in the Boot image field.
11. In the Compute block, configure the virtual machine configuration.
12. Optionally, in the Storage box, press ADD and add a disk.
13. Optional: in the Networking block, press CUSTOMIZE and configure the network. See Networking for details on configuring networks.
14. Press OK.

Create a virtual machine in an existing vApp⁠

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → vApps.
4. From the ACTIONS vApp menu, select Add → Add VM.
5. Enter the name of the virtual machine.
6. Press ADD VIRTUAL MACHINE.
7. Enter Name and Computer Name.
8. If you are creating a virtual machine from a ready-made template, select From Template in the Type field.
9. Select OS.
10. Select Storage Policy (network volume type).
11. Press OK → ADD.

Enable virtual machine⁠

If you want to enable a virtual machine with recustomization, use the Recustomize Guest OS instruction.

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → Virtual Machines.
4. From the ACTIONS menu of the virtual machine, select Power → Power On.

Move the virtual machine to another vApp⁠

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → Virtual Machines.
4. To shut down the virtual machine, from the ACTIONS menu of the virtual machine, select Power Off.
5. From the ACTIONS menu of the virtual machine, select Move to move or Copy to copy the virtual machine.
6. Optional: to create a new container for a migrated vApp, go to Compute → vApps and click New vApp.
7. In the vApps list, select the container where the vApp will be moved to and click OK.

Shut down the virtual machine⁠

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → Virtual Machines.
4. From the ACTIONS menu of the virtual machine, select Power → Power Off → Power Off.

Delete virtual machine⁠

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → Virtual Machines.
4. From the ACTIONS menu of the virtual machine, select Power → Power Off. The machine will be turned off.
5. From the ACTIONS menu of the virtual machine, select Delete.

Remove vApp⁠

Deleting a vApp will delete all virtual machines within that vApp.

Cloud Director does not support saving individual virtual machines — only the entire vApp. To keep the individual virtual machines, move them before removing the vApp.

Before deleting, you can create a vApp container template to save data from all virtual machines inside the container.

1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
2. Open the virtual data center page.
3. Go to Compute → vApps.
4. From the ACTIONS vApp menu, select Delete.
5. Press DELETE.