7.7.3 Guest Customization
vCloud Director supports customizing virtual machine guest OS during deployment or a network configuration change. The following actions are supported:
• Changing computer name
• Changing root/administrator password
• Joining domain (Windows only)
• Changing SID (Windows only)
• Changing network settings
• Running a customization script
The following are guest customization design guidelines:
• Guest customization can be enable and disabled at the VM level.
• VM Tools must be installed in order to run guest customization.
• Full guest customization is run upon deployment of a VM from a catalog or when explicitly run by the Power On and Force Recustomization task.
• When network settings change (a new NIC is added to a VM, or an IP address assignment is changed), partial guest customization is performed upon next power on, changing only network settings.
• vCloud Director does not support IPv6 for network IP address assignment.
• Guest customization of older Windows OS (for example, 2003, XP, and so on) requires sysprep files to be properly installed on each vCloud Director cell.