You can associate sites to enable the administration of the sites as a single entity in VMware Cloud Director. You can also enable organizations at those sites to form associations with each other.

When an organization is a member of an association, organization users can use the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal to access organization assets at any member site, although each member organization and its assets are local to the site it occupies.

Prerequisites

Verify that the sites you want to associate are with the same VMware Cloud Director API version, or one major version apart. For example, you can associate a VMware Cloud Director 10.1 (API version 34.0) site with a VMware Cloud Director site version 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 or 10.2.2, respectively API versions 33.0, 34.0, 35.0, or 35.2.

Procedure

  1. Retrieve the local association data of a site you want to associate.
    1. Log in to the Service Provider Admin Portal of the site you want to associate.
    2. From the primary left navigation panel, select Administration.
    3. In the left panel, under Settings, click Multisite.
    4. Click Download Local Data, and save the XML file.
  2. Repeat Step 1a to Step 1d at each site you want to associate.
  3. On any of the sites, click New Site Association.
  4. Click Upload, select the data file from another site, and click Open.
  5. To create the site association, click Create and select the relevant option for your site association configuration.
    Option Description
    Create and Add Another Select this option if you are associating more than two sites.
    Create and Go to Associated Site Select this option if you are associating two sites and want to go directly to the second site to upload the data file for the first.
    Create and Close Select this option if you want to complete the site association on this site and close the window. You must manually navigate to another site to upload the relevant data files.

    When you upload the data file to only one of the sites, you create a partial connection. To complete the association, you must upload all respective data files to each associated site. For example, if you are associating Site-A, Site-B, and Site-C. On Site-A, you must upload the data files for Site-B and Site-C. On Site-B, you must upload the data files for Site-A and Site-C. On Site-C, you must upload the data files for Site-A and Site-B. When you upload all the necessary files, the sites become Connected.

  6. If you want to associate more than two sites, upload the data files for the sites you want to associate.
    1. Upload the data files for the sites you want to associate with this site.
    2. Click Create and select Create and Close.
    3. Navigate to the Multisite tab on each site you want to associate, and upload the data files of the other sites.

What to do next

  • After you associate two sites, you can use the VMware Cloud Director API or the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal to associate organizations that occupy those sites. See the VMware Cloud Director Sub-Provider and Tenant Guide.
  • To delete an association, on the card of the site, select Actions > Delete.