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.

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 provider VMware Cloud Director user profile has System Administrator privileges assigned. 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 your provider portal URL at https://cloud.example.com/provider/login.
  2. Log in by using a VMware Cloud Director System Administrator user.
  3. From the main menu, select More > Availability (siteabc).
  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.