As a VMware Cloud Services user, you log in to Cloud Services Console with your VMware account credentials. If your account is federated, you log in using your corporate account credentials.

When a user logs in to VMware Cloud Services and after successful authentication, an access and refresh tokens are generated for the user's login session. Both tokens are generated in the background using OAuth2.0 app and have default Time to live (TTL) values:
  • 30 minutes TTL for the access token.
  • 24 hours TTL for the refresh token.
This means that after successful login, the access token remains valid only for 30 minutes. After that, it becomes invalid and the refresh token is used to regenerate the access token so that the user can continue with the login session. After 24 hours the refresh token expires and the user is required to re-log in.

Currently, the default TTL values for the access and refresh tokens cannot be modified.

Prerequisites

  • You must have an Organization role in one or more VMware Cloud Services Organizations.

Procedure

  1. Open a browser window and go to https://console.cloud.vmware.com/.
  2. Enter your account email and click Next.
  3. Type your password then click Sign In.

Results

Upon successful login, the VMware Cloud Services home page displays the services available in the Organization.