Add a vSphere cloud account

You add a vSphere cloud account and configure its parameters by running a Automation Orchestrator workflow.

Prerequisites

• To configure and work with cloud accounts in VMware Aria Automation, verify that you have the necessary credentials. See Credentials required for working with cloud accounts in VMware Aria Automation.
• For information about creating vSphere cloud accounts, see Create a vCenter cloud account in VMware Aria Automation.

Procedure

1. Log in to the Automation Orchestrator Client as an administrator.
2. Navigate to Library > Workflows and enter the cloud_accounts tag in the workflow search box.
3. Locate Create vSphere Cloud Account workflow and click Run.
4. Select a VMware Aria Automation host for which you want to configure a vSphere cloud account.
5. Enter a name for the cloud account.
6. Configure the vCenter credentials.
   1. Enter the IP address or fully-qualified domain name of your vCenter server.
   2. Select whether to accept self-signed certificated automatically without user confirmation.
   3. Provide the vCenter server user name and password.
7. If you want to add tags to support a tagging strategy, add capability tags.

   You can add tags now, or later when you edit the cloud account. For information about tagging, see How do I use tags to manage Automation Assembler resources and deployments.

8. Click Run.

Results

You have added a vSphere cloud account.

What to do next

Configure a cloud zone within the cloud account you just created. See Add a cloud zone.