You can enable the tenant access of vCenter instances that are already added to VMware Cloud Director and do not have a specified use. Enabling the tenant access creates a dedicated vCenter instance and makes it available to be published to tenants.

With an attached vCenter instance, you can create either a shared vCenter or a dedicated vCenter. If you created a shared vCenter instance, and you want to use it as a dedicated vCenter, you must first delete all provider virtual data centers (VDCs) that are using the resources of the vCenter instance. Deleting all provider VDCs linked to the shared vCenter instance changes its status to None.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have in your environment at least one attached vCenter that is not dedicated or shared.

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 without a specified purpose in the Usage column.
  4. Click Enable Tenant Access.

What to do next

Publish a Dedicated vCenter to VMware Cloud Director.