How To Guides

If you have created a new VM from template, or are unsure of a VMs Administrator or root password, then this guide will describe how to change a VMs password using the VMWare Guest Customization tools. First log into your VDC, and navigate to “Virt...

How to Increase the Disk Size of a VM in vCloud Director VMware vCloud Director is a leading cloud service-delivery platform used by some of the world’s most popular cloud providers. It’s also a powerful tool for managing virtual environments, incl...

If you would like to export a copy of a VM that is hosted in your Virtual Data Center, you can do so by following this guide. First, you will need to ensure that the VM exists inside of a vApp.  In your VDC Navigate to Virtual Machines and loc...

Using App Launchpad with VDC Finding the App Launchpad After logging into your Organisation on vCloud Director, click the “More” drop-down on the top menu to find the App Launchpad option. Once you have entered the App Launchpad area, you ...

This guide relies on the concepts covered in Getting Started in your VDC environment . Virtual Machines are virtualised instances of an operating system, using logically provided CPU, RAM, Disk and Memory. You can operate a VM without operating ...

This guide relies on the concepts covered in Getting Started in your VDC environment . VDC networks are logical representations of a ‘normal’ network. VDC allows you to utilise multiple networks so that you can deploy multiple networks. This pro...

This guide relies on the concepts covered in Getting Started in your VDC environment . A vApp is the logical association of one or more VMs, networks and applicable resources that make up a function. vApps can commonly contain multiple VMs which...

Uploading Media to your VDC The Servers Australia VDC environment allows you to upload your own media, such as custom-made or distributed .iso media. You can then mount this media for installation or access.  Creating a Catalog Navigate to t...

Managing your Edge Gateway in VDC Edges represent an NSX Edge Gateway, which is the built-in router and firewall appliance included with your VDC.  We provide you with a single edge appliance, which can manage multiple separate networks.&nb...

Backup your vAPPs with Veeam You can easily backup your VMs using Veeam, directly from your vCloud Director tenant portal. Create a new backup job. On the top menu, click ‘More’ → ‘Data protection with Veeam’. This will take you to your Veeam se...

Once logged into your vCloud director tenant user interface, navigate to ‘More’ → ‘Data Protection With Veeam’, on the top menu bar. From here, you can either restore an entire vAPP/VM, specific virtual hard disks, or even individual files. The bel...

In your VDC it is possible to save a vApp as a template so that it can be used to quickly bring up new vApp that are clones of the original.  This can be useful if you build a base line version of VMs in a vApp that you will want to create clon...

Prerequisites An FQDN that will resolve to the OpenVPN VMs public IP. This is so a valid SSL certificate can be added when connecting to the Admin portal for OpenVPN Access Server. This can be a sub-domain.  A Valid SSL for the VMs FQDN ...

Please Note: All traffic between virtual machines inside the same VDC is already unmetered, just make sure you use the private IP of each VM when sending traffic between the VMs. This guide covers how to get unmetered traffic to Servers Austral...

You may want to exclude certain files or folders from your backups. It's possible with our self-service veeam plugin for VDC.  If you want to backup your entire vAPP/VM you can ignore this guide and simply set up your backup as described in th...