SDDC Manager provides the user interface for your single point of control for managing and monitoring your Cloud Foundation system and for provisioning virtual environments.

You use the Navigation bar to move between the main areas of the user interface.

Navigation Bar

On the left side of the interface is the Navigation bar. The Navigation bar provides a hierarchy for navigating to the corresponding pages.

Category Functional Areas
Dashboard The Dashboard provides the high-level administrative view for SDDC Manager features and functions in the form of widgets, including: Workload Domains; CPU, Memory, Storage Usage; Host Types and Usage; Recent Tasks; Ongoing and Scheduled Updates; and Update History.
You can control which widgets display and how they are arranged on dashboard.
  • To rearrange the widgets, click the heading of the widget and drag it into the desired position.
  • To hide a widget, hover the mouse anywhere over the widget to reveal the X in the upper-right corner, and click the X.

  • To add a widget to the dashboard, click the three dots adjacent to the Commission Hosts button in the upper right corner of the page and select Add New Widgets. This displays all hidden widgets and enables you to select them.

Inventory The Inventory category directs you to the following destinations:
  • Click Workload Domains to go directly to the Workload Domains page, which displays and provides access to all current workload domains and controls for managing workload domains.

    This page includes detailed status and information about all existing workload domains, including IP addresses, health status, owner, number of hosts, update status, and more. It also displays CPU, memory, and storage utilization for each workload domain, and collectively across all domains.

  • Click Hosts to go directly to the Hosts page, which displays and provides access to all current hosts and controls for managing hosts.

    This page includes detailed status and information about all existing hosts, including IP addresses, network pool, health status, domain and cluster assignment, and storage type. It also displays CPU, memory, and storage utilization for each host, and collectively across all hosts.

Repository The Repository category directs you to the following destinations:
  • Click Bundles to view the Cloud Foundation product bundles that are available in the Cloud Foundation instance.
  • Click Download History to view the history of update bundle downloads, including version number, date, and other release details. If a bundle is available but has not yet been downloaded, controls for immediate or scheduled downloading appear next to the bundle.
    Note:

    To access patches and bundles, you must be logged in to your myvware account through the Administration > Update Management page.

Administration The Administration category directs you to the following destinations:
  • Click Network Settings to view and manage network pool settings, including network pool configuration. You can create new pools, and view and modify existing pools. A network pool is a collection of network information with an IP inclusion range reserved for Cloud Foundation. See About Network Pools for more information.
  • Click Licensing to manage VMware product licenses. Add the licenses for the component products that comprise your Cloud Foundation deployment. See License Management for more information.
  • Click Users to manage Cloud Foundation users and groups, including creating users and groups, setting privileges, assigning roles, and deleting users and groups. See User and Group Management for more information.
  • Click Repository Settings to log in to your My VMware account, and gain access to install, patch and update bundles.
  • Click Composable Infrastructure to configure composable servers to meet the needs of your workloads without physically moving any hardware components.
  • Click vRealize Suite to deploy and manage vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Automation as components of Cloud Foundation.

    See vRealize Suite Products and Cloud Foundation for more information.

  • Click Security to configure your certificate authorities and manage password for the accounts that are used by your Cloud Foundation system. See Certificate Management and Password Management for more information.
  • Click Backup Configuration to register an external SFTP server with SDDC Manager for backing up NSX Managers.
  • Click VMware CEIP to enroll in the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program. This program provides VMware with information that enables VMware to improve its products and services, to fix problems, and to advise you on how best to deploy and use our products. As part of the CEIP, VMware collects technical information about your organization's use of VMware products and services on a regular basis in association with your organization's VMware license key(s).
Developer Center The Developer Center includes the following sections:
  • Overview: API reference documentation. Includes information and steps for all the Public APIs supported by Cloud Foundation.
  • API Explorer: Lists the APIs and allows you to invoke them directly on your Cloud Foundation system.
  • Code Samples: Sample code to manage a Cloud Foundation instance.