A cell (also known as the cloud director or self-service portal) is the service to which Resource Manager connects to perform all discovery and monitoring. Follow these steps to use Resource Manager to discover the cloud and all available details:
From the Resource Manager user interface, select Infrastructure > Devices.
The device list appears.
Click
and then select Add vCloud Cell.The Add vCloud Cell dialog appears.
Enter information in the dialog to add the vCloud cell:
Hostname or IP Address - Enter the host name or IP address for the cell.
Port # - Enter the cell port number.
Username - Enter the user name, in the form username@organization.
For example, if you are the cell administrator, enter
administrator@system. Alternatively, if you user name is Joe and you are part of the ACME organization, enterJoe@ACME.Password - Enter the password for username.
Click Add.
A dialog appears with the option to view the job log of the cell being discovered. Select the option to view the job log and monitor the job's completion.
