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 replication management operations.

Prerequisites

Verify that your VMware Cloud Director tenant user profile has Organization Administrator privileges assigned.

Procedure

  1. In a Web browser, go to your tenant organization portal URL, for example https://cloud.example.com/tenant/Organization-Name.
  2. Log in by using a VMware Cloud Director Organization Administrator user.
  3. To open the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal, from the main menu, select More > Availability (site-name).
    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.