Publish a Dedicated vCenter to VMware Cloud Director

You can publish a dedicated vCenter to a tenant and make it visible through the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal. By default, one vCenter should be published only to one tenant.

By default, an SDDC is a vCenter instance that you dedicate to a single tenant by publishing the corresponding dedicated vCenter instance only to its organization. The tenant does not share the dedicated vCenter instance resources with other tenants. Publishing a dedicated vCenter instance to multiple tenants violates the tenancy boundaries. However, sometimes a tenant must have access to multiple dedicated vCenter instances. In these cases, you can publish a dedicated vCenter instance to multiple tenants.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you have at least one vCenter instance with enabled tenant access in your VMware Cloud Director environment. See Managing Dedicated vCenter Instances in VMware Cloud Director.

Procedure

1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Infrastructure Resources.
2. From the secondary left panel, select vCenter Server Instances.
3. Select a vCenter with enabled tenant access.
   The vCenter instances with enabled tenant access have a Dedicated value in the Usage column.
4. Click Manage Tenants.
5. Select the tenant or tenants to which you want to publish the vCenter instance.
   Deselecting a tenant from the list, unpublishes the vCenter.
6. Click Save.

What to do next

To enable users to access the dedicated vCenter instances and the proxies from the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal, you must publish the CPOM extension plug-in to their organizations. See Publish or Unpublish a Plug-in from a VMware Cloud Director Organization.