After installing and configuring VMware Cloud Director Availability , as a service provider you can perform management and administrative tasks. These tasks include changes to the provisioned environment and routine administration and maintenance procedures.
Network Settings Configuration After completing a VMware Cloud Director Availability appliance deployment, as a system administrator you can modify the network settings of the appliance by using the management interface.
Certificates Management When the SSL certificates are about to expire, the service provider can renew or replace the certificates of the VMware Cloud Director Availability services and the certificates in the remaining disaster recovery infrastructure.
Manage the Accessible Provider VDCs By default, VMware Cloud Director Availability can access all provider virtual data centers (VDCs) that the VMware Cloud Director instance manages. Each VMware Cloud Director Availability instance allows the service provider to manage the accessible provider VDCs.
Managing Connections Between Cloud Sites Cloud sites management includes establishing and re-establishing trust between sites. After you initiate pairing from the local site and complete the pairing from the remote site, VMware Cloud Director Availability establishes a trust between the two cloud sites. Re-establish the trust after upgrading VMware Cloud Director Availability , after replacing the Cloud Service certificate, or after registering additional Replicator Service instances.
Managing Public Administrative Access to VMware Cloud Director Availability In a dedicated appliance deployment type, the administrative sessions to all VMware Cloud Director Availability services are restricted by default when originating from public networks.
Maintenance Perform maintenance operations on a datastore or on a Replicator Service instance and rebalance replications across Replicator Service instances.
Cloud Event Notifications As a service provider , you can monitor the cloud event notifications that VMware Cloud Director Availability generates either by using a syslog server or in VMware Cloud Director by monitoring the VMware Cloud Director Availability events.
Troubleshooting In the disaster recovery environment, you can diagnose and correct problems related to VMware Cloud Director Availability services operation, logging, and others.