Authenticate to remote sites as a provider

From the local site you can manage VMware Cloud Director Availability objects in remote sites, after in the local site you extend the session to the remote sites by authenticating as a Organization Administrator or as a System Administrator.

You can defer this authentication procedure until you need access to the remote site. For a list of replication operations that require authentication to remote sites, see Authenticating to paired remote cloud sites.

Prerequisites

• Verify that the remote site is paired. For information about pairing sites, see the Administration Guide document.
• Verify that you can access VMware Cloud Director Availability as a provider. For more information, see Accessing the VMware Cloud Director Availability Provider Portal. For information about tenant impersonation, see Log in by using the VMware Cloud Director™ Provider Admin Portal.
• Verify that you have credentials for both the local and the remote organizations, to perform replication operations on the remote site.

For information about the required user roles privileges, see Users roles rights and sessions in the Security Guide.

Procedure

1. In the left pane, click Sites.
2. On the Cloud sites page, select the remote site you want to authenticate to and click Login.
3. In the Log In window, enter the remote site Organization Administrator or System Administrator credentials, and click Login.

Results

The session is extended to the remote site and you can manage the remote site replications. For more information about the duration of the extended session, see Authenticating to paired remote cloud sites.