How to manage hosted VMs and VDCs in our private cloud

Before you can manage your resources in our private cloud you will need the following details:

These will have been provided when your virtual resources were commissioned.

If you are new to VMware Cloud Director then we recommend that you familiarise yourself with key concepts and UI navigation through an introductory course or video such as vCloud Director for Cloud and IT Admins (VMware Cloud Provider @ YouTube).

Login to your management URL
Select Administration > Access Control > Users
Select New user and complete the form details, making sure that Enable is selected
Select Save

In step 3 you are required to select a role. The pre-defined roles grant access as follows (or view VMware Cloud Director Rights in Predefine Global Tenant Roles):

Predefined role	Access summary
vApp Author	Use catalogues and create vApps
Console Access Only	View virtual machine state and properties and to use the guest OS
vApp User	Use existing vApps
Organization Administrator	Manage users and groups in their organization and assign them roles via the tenant portal or OpenAPI
Catalogue Author	Create and publish catalogues

Manage virtual machines and virtual data centres in our private cloud using VMware Cloud Director