To meter the product consumption data of VMware Cloud Director Availability, you must add the product instance to vCloud Usage Meter.

For information about the compatibility between vCloud Usage Meter and VMware Cloud Director Availability, see the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix.
Connectivity

If you deploy vCloud Usage Meter as a part of the same network segment as VMware Cloud Director Availability that has direct access to to the Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance or the vCenter Replication Management Appliance, provide the Cloud Replication Management Appliance address as Endpoint.

If vCloud Usage Meter cannot access the private IP address of the Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance or the vCenter Replication Management Appliance because of deployment specifics, you must provide the Service Endpoint address or the TCP Load Balancer address (if VMware Cloud Director Availability operates with a second Tunnel Appliance for High Availability) as Endpoint. For a Cloud Replication Management Appliance, set the Restrict Admin APIs by source IP configuration to Allow admin access from anywhere.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that vCloud Usage Meter can connect to VMware Cloud Director Availability.
  • Verify that you have an account with sufficient privileges for the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliance.

Procedure

  1. In the main menu bar of the vCloud Usage Meter Web interface, click Products.
  2. Navigate to Migration & Recovery > Cloud Director Availability.
  3. On the Cloud Director Availability page, click Add.
  4. In the Endpoint text box, enter the host name or IP address of the VMware Cloud Director Availability instance.
    For more information, see the Connectivity section.
  5. From the Autentication provider radio button, select one of the authenitcation mechanisms.
    Authentication mechanism Description
    Cloud Director Availability Select if you use a Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance or a vCenter Replication Management Appliance. Requires the root user account credentials of the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliance.
    vSphere SSO Select if you use the vCenter Replication Management Appliance. Requires vSphere SSO credentials. The user must be a member of the VrMonitoringAdministrators SSO group in vSphere.
    Cloud Director

    Select if you use the Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance. The user must have a provider account with the VCDA_READ_RIGHT role assigned in VMware Cloud Director.
    For information about setting up vSphere SSO or VMware Cloud Director accounts with the right permissions for VMware Cloud Director Availability, see Users roles rights and sessions in the VMware Cloud Director Availability Security Guide documentation.
  6. In the Username and Password text boxes, enter the credentials of the selected VMware Cloud Director Availability authentication provider.
  7. Click Add.

Results

The product is part of the list of instances. If an error occurs, a message appears in the Status column in the Cloud Director Availability list of instances.