This section describes the steps to configure the Avi Load Balancer cloud connector in the write access mode and the no-access mode.

Note:

The following vCenter objects can not be changed if a cloud is configured.

  • Network name. Only the management network is configured in the cloud. Other network names can be changed.

Datacenter Name

You can change the name of datacenter in vCenter. You can configure either datacenter_managed_object_id or datacenter. If you configure only datacenter name, the managed object ID will be updated by the cloud connector itself.

If there is a change in the datacenter name in vCenter, cloud will be up and running. You can edit the cloud and change the datacenter name but the datacenter datacenter_managed_object_id should match with the new datacenter’s datacenter_managed_object_id.

Note:

  • If the datacenter_managed_object_id is different during the cloud creation, then the system displays an error message and will not allow to save the cloud.

  • It is recommended to use datacenter_managed_object_id.

Datastore Name

Datastore also has the option of managed_object_id which can be used to configure instead of datastore_name. The following is the CLI to connfigure datastore:

message VcenterDatastore {
    optional string datastore_name = 1;
    optional string managed_object_id = 2[
        (introduced_in) = '22.1.3',
        (f_description) = "Will be used by default, if not set fallback to datastore_name.",
        (string_length) = 256
    ];
}