VMware Cloud Director

Supported versions

For details of VMware vCloud Director (versions prior to 10.3), see vCloud Director.

VMware Cloud Director in Abiquo

Abiquo supports VMware Cloud Director as an Abiquo public cloud. VCD can be a public or private cloud, but it best fits the public cloud model in Abiquo. This is because it is a self-contained cloud with an endpoint for access and an API to manage it. Abiquo works with VMware Cloud Director organizations as Abiquo public cloud regions.

Configure VMware Cloud Director in Abiquo

1. Configure VMware Cloud Director with properties.  See Abiquo configuration properties#vcd

   • By default the platform configures a private network connection to allow outgoing VDC traffic in VMware Cloud Director via edge-uplink with the abiquo.vcd.parentnetwork property. You can remove this connection.

     • If you configure a parentnetwork, then by default, the platform will fence the VMware Cloud Director vApp. To change this configuration, set the abiquo.vcd.fenceVapp property to "false" 

   • You can change the number of IPs to use for load balancers, which by default is 20. 

   • You can configure the type of metrics to use

   • You can tune timeouts for your environment

2. To display VMware Cloud Director regions in groups by endpoint, configure the UI to group public cloud regions by provider

Add VMware Cloud Director to Abiquo

To add VMware Cloud Director to Abiquo, the basic steps are as follows:

1. Create public cloud regions for VMware Cloud Director:

   1. Enter the URL for VMware Cloud Director (e.g. https://myclouddirector.example.com)

   2. Enter credentials for ONE of the following models:

      1. To add a provider VDC, enter Administrator credentials (user@System)

      2. To add an organization VDC, enter Organization administrator credentials (user@orgName). This region will be exclusive to the organization

2. Edit each enterprise that will work in a VMware Cloud Director region (provider VDC or org VDC)

   1. Go to Allowed datacenters and add the region

   2. Go to Credentials and select VMware Cloud Director. Enter the organization administrator identity and credential
      
      

For complete instructions, see VMware Cloud Director integration.

Add a new VMware Cloud Director organization to Abiquo

When the system administrator adds a new organization in VMware Cloud Director, this will create a new organization vDC.

To add the org vDC in Abiquo:

1. Go to Infrastructure → Public

2. Click the + button and select Create a public cloud region to update the available regions 

   • This will add metadata for this model to the organization virtual datacenter.

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