VMware ACEFeatures | Documentation | Knowledge Base | Discussion Forums Creating a ProjectA project contains one or more virtual machines and an application used to run those virtual machines. A wizard guides you through the steps you must take to create a project. After you create the project, add one or more virtual machines to the project and set policies for the virtual machines and for the application. You can move directly from the New Project Wizard to the New Virtual Machine Wizard or launch the New Virtual Machine Wizard later by clicking Add virtual machine to project on the project summary display. You can move directly from the New Virtual Machine Wizard to the policy editor or launch the policy editor later by clicking Edit policies on any summary display. Note: Be sure that all project and virtual machine files are stored in a location that is backed up regularly. You must have access to the original project and virtual machine files when you create a package to send updates to your end users. See Checklist: Creating a Project for a worksheet you can use to gather the information you need when you create a new project. To create a project, take the following steps:
To specify general settings for the project, choose Project > Settings. The Project Settings dialog box appears.
On the General tab, you may update the project name and add or modify the project description.
On the Policies Domain tab, you may choose an Active Directory domain to use for storing policies for the project.
On the Offline Policies tab, you may specify whether virtual machines in this project are allowed to cache policy settings. If you use Active Directory or a Web server to store policies, offline policies allow your end users to continue working even when they are unable to connect to the server where the policies are stored — for example, when they are working offline. Use the drop-down list to specify how long the cached policies remain valid. If you enable offline policies, information is cached for the following policies:
On the Recovery Key tab, you may specify the public key to be used for access to encrypted virtual machines. If you specify password protection for a virtual machine and want to be able to reset the password for a deployed virtual machine, you must specify a recovery key before you create the package that includes the virtual machine. Select Use recovery key to configure a recovery key. To use an existing PEM-format key pair, click Browse for Existing Key to navigate to the public key of the pair you want to use. To create a new PEM-format key pair, click Create New Recovery Key. The Create New Recovery Key dialog box appears.
Enter a name and location for the key pair. Enter and confirm the password to protect the private key. Then click OK to generate the keys. It takes several seconds to generate the keys. When the keys are generated and saved, the Create New Recovery Key dialog box disappears and the newly generated public key is listed in the field on the Recovery Key tab. Note: You must know the password for the private key and the location of the private key file in order to reset an end user's password. |
