Configure the vCloud Director Management Components

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Review vCloud Requirements
Review the following requirements before you start configuring the vCloud Director management components of
Server Automation
:
  • You are familiar with TCP/IP, SNMP, web services, and Windows Server operating systems.
  • You have a basic understanding of
    Server Automation
    ,
    , VMware vSphere, and VMware vCloud.
  • You can access a 
    Server Automation
    manager installation that includes the VMware Platform Management Module (PMM), vCloud Application Insight Module (AIM), and Monitoring Agent (
    ).
  • You can access the 
    Server Automation
    user interface.
  • You have valid credentials available (user name and password) to access the vCloud Director server that you want to manage.
  • You have found out which protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) and port to use for accessing the vCloud Director through web services. Default: HTTPS, Port 443
  • You have verified that the vSphere environment and the vCloud Director run properly.
  • If the VMware PMM and vCloud AIM are installed on different systems, you have verified that the SNMP settings on these systems are consistent. Read and write community strings and SNMP port number must be identical.
  • You have verified that the 
    Server Automation
    manager has discovered any remote vCloud AIM Servers that you want to use.
Interactions Between vCloud Management Components
The following diagram illustrates how the components involved in vCloud Director management interact.
and the vCloud AIM run on a Windows server. The AIM communicates with one or more remote vCloud Director servers to manage the virtual environment. The vCloud AIM collects the data for an entire view of the virtual resources associated with the vCloud Director. The underlying vSphere environment provides the required resources to run virtual machines and vApps.
Interaction between vCloud Director Management Components
Interaction between vCloud Director Management Components
You can configure vCloud management through the Administration tab of the user interface.
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Add a vCloud Director Connection to the Manager
You can add a vCloud Director connection using the Administration tab of the 
Server Automation
user interface.
Follow these steps:
  1. Open the 
    Server Automation
    user interface from the Start menu. Click Administration, Configuration.
    The Configuration page appears.
  2. Select vCloud Server from the Provisioning section in the left pane.
    The right pane refreshes and displays the managed vCloud Servers, associated vCloud AIM Servers, and the AIM Instance for the vCloud Server.
  3. Click add (Add) on the vCloud Servers pane toolbar.
    The Add vCloud Server dialog appears.
  4. Enter the required connection data (server name, username, password, protocol, port), specify the preferred AIM, enable Managed Status (check box), and click OK.
    When specifying the user name, you can use the following syntax to consider user roles and access levels:
    • System Administrator (Full access): administrator@System
    • Limit operation at the organization level and the role assignment (Organizational Access)
      username
      @
      organization_name
    If the network connection has been established successfully, the vCloud Server is added to the top right vCloud Servers pane with a green status icon. 
    Server Automation
    discovers the vCloud Server automatically.
    If the connection fails, the Validation Failed dialog appears. If you click Yes, 
    Server Automation
    adds the vCloud Server to the list with a red status icon indicating a connection failure. If you click No, nothing is added.
    See vCloud Server Connection Failure to troubleshoot the connection.
Add the AIM Instance for the vCloud Server
After adding a new vCloud Server connection to the 
Server Automation
manager, add a vCloud AIM instance to manage the new vCloud Server. 
Server Automation
then discovers the entire vCloud environment with all its virtual components, such as Organizations, vApps, VMs, and so on.
Follow these steps:
  1. Open the 
    Server Automation
    user interface from the Start menu. Click Administration, Configuration.
    The Configuration page appears.
  2. Select vCloud Server from the Provisioning section in the left pane.
    The right pane refreshes and displays the managed vCloud Servers, associated vCloud AIM Servers, and the AIM Instances for managed vCloud Servers.
  3. Click add (Add) on the vCloud AIM Servers pane toolbar.
    The New vCloud AIM Server dialog appears.
  4. Open the vCloud AIM Server drop-down list.
    The list of discovered vCloud AIM Servers appears. If you have installed the vCloud AIM on the local system, the name of the local system appears in the list too.
  5. Select a vCloud AIM Server from the drop-down list.
    Server Automation
     populates the vCloud Server drop-down list with the vCloud Servers listed in the vCloud Servers pane. That is, you can only manage those vCloud Servers for which your 
    Server Automation
    manager has a valid connection established.
  6. Select the vCloud Server you want to manage and click OK.
    A new AIM instance for the selected vCloud Server is added. If the instance is not in an error or stopped state, 
    Server Automation
    starts to discover the associated vCloud environment. When the discovery process is complete, you can start managing the virtual resources of vCloud.
Verify the VMware vCloud Folder in the Resources Tree
After a successful configuration and discovery, the new vCloud Server is listed in the Resources Explore pane under the VMware vCloud folder.
Follow these steps:
  1. Click Resources, Explore.
    The Resources tree appears.
  2. Expand VMware vCloud.
    The managed vCloud Director Servers appear.
  3. Expand the new vCloud Director Server entry.
    The managed vCloud infrastructure appears: Organizations, vApps, VMs, ...
Server Automation
 is now ready to manage the added vCloud environment with its virtual infrastructure.