During the initial configuration, VMware Cloud Director Availability registers as a plug-in in VMware Cloud Director™ and provides access for the tenants directly from the VMware Cloud Director™ tenant portal.

When you access the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal from the VMware Cloud Director™ tenant portal, you can manage cloud and disaster recovery environments from a single user interface which simplifies the management operations.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that your VMware Cloud Director Availability environment is running VMware Cloud Director™ 9.1 or later.
  • Verify that your VMware Cloud Director tenant user profile has Organization Administrator privileges.

Procedure

  1. In a Web browser, go to your organization tenant portal URL, for example https://cloud.example.com/tenant/Organization-Name.
  2. Log in with a VMware Cloud DirectorOrganization Administrator user.
  3. Open the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal, by selecting Availability from the main menu.
    Note: Attempting to log in by using a user with insufficient rights assigned to their role in VMware Cloud Director results in:

    The original error message is:

    Permission denied.

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