VMware Cloud Director™ Sub-Provider and Tenant Guide

The VMware Cloud Director Sub-Provider and Tenant Guide provides information for sub-providers and tenants.

As a sub-provider, you can learn how to create organizations, create and manage organization virtual data centers (VDCs), create and manage organization VDC networks, switch between organizations, set up organization IdPs, create and publish roles and rights bundles, share and publish catalogs, manage catalog subscriptions, and so on. As a tenant, you can learn how to manage your organization, create and configure virtual machines (VMs), vApps, and networks within vApps. You can also configure advanced networking capabilities that are provided by VMware NSX^® for vSphere^® within a VMware Cloud Director environment. You can also create and manage catalogs, vApp and VDC templates, and create and manage cross-virtual data center networks.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for anyone who wants to use the sub-provider and tenant capabilities of VMware Cloud Director. The information is written primarily for sub-provider administrators and organization administrators who use the Tenant Portal to administer their organizations, manage VMs, vApps, networks, and so on.

Usage Terms & Conditions

VMware gives you permission to modify this tenant user guide (the “Guide”) as reasonably needed to customize it to reflect your operational processes, and then to reproduce and distribute the modified Guide to your customers. You may not charge your customers a fee for access to the modified Guide. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE GUIDE IS PROVIDED TO YOU WITHOUT CHARGE, “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED ABOVE. ACCORDINGLY, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF VMWARE AND ITS SUPPLIERS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO PROVIDING YOU WITH ACCESS TO THE GUIDE SHALL NOT EXCEED $100. IN NO EVENT SHALL VMWARE OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION), HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF VMWARE OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.