You can see a list of the vCenter instances across all sites in your VMware Cloud Director installation. You can see how VMware Cloud Director uses each vCenter instance.

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.

Results

A list of all attached vCenter instances is displayed. The list contains the following information for each vCenter instance.
Description
Name The name of the vCenter instance in VMware Cloud Director.
Status The vCenter status can be normal, warning, and critical.
State Activated or deactivated. See Activate or Deactivate a vCenter Instance in Your VMware Cloud Director.
Connection Connected or not to VMware Cloud Director. See Reconnect a vCenter Instance to Your VMware Cloud Director.
VC Host FQDN of the vCenter instance.
Version The vCenter version.
Usage Dedicated vCenter instances have enabled tenant access. The provider can use different resource pools of a shared vCenter instance across multiple provider VDCs and then allocate those resource pools to different tenants. See Managing Dedicated vCenter Instances in VMware Cloud Director.
Cluster Health Aggregation of the health of all clusters in the vCenter instance. When aggregating the heath of the cluster, the health of the least healthy cluster is displayed.
Clusters Number of clusters in the vCenter instance.
VMs Number of VMs in the vCenter instance.
Running VMs Number of running VMs in the vCenter instance.
CPU Amount of actively used virtual CPU as a percentage of the total available vCenter CPU.
Memory Amount of actively used virtual memory as a percentage of the total available vCenter memory.
Storage Amount of actively used virtual storage as a percentage of the total available vCenter storage.