After installing VMware vCloud Director 5.5, you are given an option to start the service immediately. However, if you decide not to start the service at this time as in perhaps you are prepping more than one vCloud Director server, then you can start the cloud director service at a later time and it can be done manually.
vCloud Director runs on Linux; redhat, centos. The command line to start the vcloud director service is the same.
The command to start the vCloud Director service is :
service vmware-vcd start
The command to stop the vCloud Director service is :
service vmware-vcd stop
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Just an added note to this post. Thank you for it and I wanted to add that all VMs running in the cloud remain operation when vcloud director is restarted. They do not have to be turned off, paused, or stopped in any way. They are not affected by a restart of vcloud director.
VMware has remote control capability built into their vsphere client and also their web client for managing hosts. When connected with the client, remote control access is available for all the VMs in the cluster or even a single host. With the web client, remote control is web based. The browser windows of course displays all the virtual machines and connecting on them or selecting console connection from the web based vspahere access opens a remote control window. Inside that window is the virtual server or desktop. Authentication is still required to get remote control but the access is built in. Web based support software works similarly. Web based software for support also permits access through the web not only from the client. Web based software for computer support provides additional access outside the vsphere client from vmware. Web based software unlike the client permits access to remote computers. The computers can be virtual or hardware based. Meaning, they are on their own hardware.
The commands worked perfectly for stopping and starting the vmware cloud services on the Cent OS system. We are using a slightly newer release but no difference in the commands. We have a two in a active standby fail-over configuration.
I setup two cent OS virtual machines. Cent-OS quick and easy to install and adding or updating packages is done so perfectly with YUM. We decided not to use enterprise Linux like red had and have not had a problem or regretted it. There is plenty of support available in forums and on the web for cent OS. Going with paid support would not have been worth it.
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