If you opt out from the VMware Lab Platform Cloud and choose a BYOC subscription, you must first connect your organization's virtual cloud director instance to VMware Lab Platform before you can create labs.

Note:

The VMware Cloud Director term cloud organization, or cloud org, is equivalent to the VMware Lab Platform term cloud.

Procedure

  1. To display the Clouds page, from the navigation panel, click Cloud Management > Clouds.
  2. On the Clouds page, click Create New. The Create cloud tab of the Cloud form is displayed. Enter details for the cloud organization that you are creating.
    Option Description

    Tenant Assignment and Tenant Deployment

    Both apply only to the current customer account and does not affect other accounts using this cloud org. Their settings only have meaning if Enabled has been set to true and the corresponding activity setting is also set to true (for example, Tenant Assignment only has meaning if Assignment has been set to true). Both can be used to deactivate deployments or assignments for a specific account, without affecting the settings for other accounts.

    Tenant Maintenance Mode

    Activates or deactivates maintenance mode for the cloud organization. This value is specific to the customer account, that is, it affects only your account. This option is useful when you do not want activity in the selected cloud organization (for example, due to problems or other issues or an upgrade).

    Use Edge Gateway

    Activates the NSX-T organization network connections and service settings (DHCP, firewall, and routing).

    Edge Gateway DNS

    Name of the edge gateway domain name server.

    Org Name

    Name of your cloud organization. Organization names are case sensitive. If you do not know the name of your organization, see #GUID-CB0A12C5-03D1-4A7B-9B44-1A736615AF0C.

    Host Name

    Host name for your organization’s VMware Cloud Director (Example: abc-vclass1.xyzedu.com).

    Note:

    VMware Lab Platform confirms that the host you specified has a certificate, but does not validate the certificate.

    Org Admin

    Administrator user name.

    Password

    Password for the VMware Cloud Director cloud org administrator.

    Display Name (optional)

    Name to display in the list of cloud organizations. Enable display name by clicking the gear icon on the Cloud Org page and selecting Display Name.

    Location

    Select a location from the drop-down menu.

    Console Connection Monitoring

    Select the check box to enable console connection monitoring for this organization's labs. With console connection monitoring, students and instructors can monitor connection health when a lab is in use.
  3. Enter the details in the form, click Create Cloud.
  4. On the Cloud Org Vdcs tab, you can view the Cloud Org VDC details.
  5. On the Cloud Catalogs tab, enable at least one catalog for the cloud org.

    A catalog is a collection of lab templates. Activated means that the templates contained in a catalog are available to VMware Lab Platform. VMware Lab Platform requires access to templates to build a lab.

  6. Click Update Cloud.

Results

The Clouds page displays the new cloud added in the list.