Modify Organization Email Preferences; Modify Organization Lease, Quota, And Limit Settings - VMware CLOUD DIRECTOR 1.0 Admin Manual

Cloud Director Administrator's Guide

Modify Organization Email Preferences

Cloud Director requires an SMTP server to send user notification and system alert emails. You can modify the
settings you specified when you created the organization.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Properties.
3 Click the Email Preferences tab.
4 Select an SMTP server option.
Option
Use system default SMTP server
Set organization SMTP server
5 Select a notification settings option.
Option
Use system default notification
settings
Set organization notification
settings
6 (Optional) Type a destination email address and click Test Email Settings to verify that all SMTP server
settings are configured as expected.
7 Click OK.

Modify Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings

Leases, quotas, and limits constrain the ability of organization users to consume storage and processing
resources. You can modify these settings to prevent users from depleting or monopolizing an organization's
resources.
For more information about leases, see
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Properties.
3 Click the Policies tab.
4 Select the lease options for vApps and vApp templates.
Leases provide a level of control over an organization's storage and compute resources by specifying the
maximum amount of time that vApps can be running and that vApps and vApp templates can be stored.
You can also specify what happens to vApps and vApp templates when their storage lease expires.
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Description
Organization uses the system SMTP server.
Organization uses its own SMTP server. If you select this option, type the
DNS host name or IP address and port number of the SMTP server.
(Optional) Select the Requires authentication check box and type a user
name and password.
Description
Organization uses the system notification settings.
Organization uses its own notification settings. If you select this option, type
an email address that appears as the sender for organization emails, type text
to use as the subject prefix for organization emails, and select the recipients
for organization emails.
"Understanding Leases," on page 23.
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