During the initial VMware Cloud Director Availability configuration, VMware Cloud Director Availability registers as a VMware Cloud Director™ plug-in and provides access to the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal directly from the VMware Cloud Director provider admin portal.

Note: As a System Administrator user, for impersonation on behalf of the tenant organization:
  1. As a provider, create a new user with Organization Administrator role for the tenant organization.
  2. Authenticate with the new user account for managing replications on behalf of the tenant organization.

When you access the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal from the VMware Cloud Director provider admin portal, you can manage cloud and disaster recovery environments from a single user interface. The first time you access the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal from the VMware Cloud Director provider admin portal, you must trust the SSL certificate of the Cloud Service appliance as described in Step 5.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that your VMware Cloud Director Availability environment is running VMware Cloud Director 9.1 or later.
  • Verify that the user profile has System Administrator privileges. For information about the required user roles privileges, see Users roles rights and sessions in the Security Guide.

Procedure

  1. In a Web browser, go to the organization service provider portal URL at https://cloud.example.com/provider/login.
  2. Log in with a VMware Cloud DirectorSystem Administrator user.
  3. From the main menu, select Cloud Director Availability.
  4. If logging in for the first time, click the https://Cloud-Replication-Management-Appliance-IP-Address:8443 link.
  5. In the newly opened browser tab, verify the thumbprint and trust the SSL certificate of the Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance by clicking Accept.
    You must trust the SSL certificate of the Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance only when you access the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal for the first time. After you trust the certificate, by selecting Availability from the VMware Cloud Director provider admin portal main menu opens the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal.