Configure the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance by Using the vSphere Client

In vSphere 7.0, you can complete the registration and pairing of the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance, without navigating to the appliance management interface.

Prerequisites

Verify that your on-premises site is running vSphere 7.0. If your vSphere version is earlier than 7.0, skip this procedure and see Configure the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance.
Install and power on the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance. For more information, see Deploying the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance.
Verify that the cloud provider enabled the replication policy for your organization.
Obtain the VMware Cloud Director Availability Service Endpoint address from the DRAAS powered cloud provider.

Procedure

In a Web browser, go to the vSphere Client and log in as an administrator.
From the Home menu, select VMware Cloud Director Availability.
On the Getting Started tab, to register the newly deployed appliance, click the Register link.
In the Register on-premise appliance window, enter the details of the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance.
1. Enter the IP address of the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance.
2. Enter the appliance password of the root user.
3. Verify the thumbprint and accept the SSL certificate of the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance.
4. Click Register.
5. To establish a new user session, log out from the vSphere Client and log back in to the vSphere Client as an administrator.
On the Getting Started tab, you can see a Successfully registered the on-premise appliance message.
From the Home menu, select VMware Cloud Director Availability.
Under the Dashboard tab, click Pair now.
On the Site Details page, enter a Site Name, optionally enter a Site Description, and click Next.

Important: The site name is used as an identifier and cannot be changed later without impacting the active replications.
On the Lookup Service Details page, enter a lookup-service-IP-address, the single sign-on user credentials, and click Next.
Verify the thumbprint and accept the SSL certificate of the vCenter Server Lookup service and click Next.
On the Cloud Service Details page, pair the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-Premises Appliance and the cloud provider.
1. Enter the VMware Cloud Director Availability Service Endpoint address, provided by the cloud provider.
2. Enter the VMware Cloud Director admin@org organization user credentials.
3. (Optional) Select Allow Access from Cloud.
  By selecting this option, you allow the cloud provider and the organization administrators without authenticating to the on-premises site to perform operations from the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal:
  - Discover on-premises workloads and replicate them to the cloud.
  - Reverse existing replications to the on-premises site.
  - Replicate cloud workloads to the on-premises site.
  By leaving this option deselected, only users authenticated to the on-premises VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal can configure new replications and existing replications cannot be reversed from the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal.
4. Verify the thumbprint and accept the SSL certificate of the VMware Cloud Director Availability Service Endpoint and click Next.
Optionally join the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program, confirm your choice, and click Next.
On the Ready to Complete page, optionally select to configure the local placement now, and to complete the wizard click Finish.
- You can configure data center to cloud replications and you can leave Configure local placement now deselected.
- To enable the cloud to data center replications, select Configure local placement now.

What to do next

If you skipped configuring local placement in the last step of the wizard, you can proceed with Configure Local Placement.