Create a New Cloud Provider – Application Services Series Part 1

Jonathan Frappier Virtxpert

VMware Application Services (formerly Application Director) is now deployed, but we need to do a bit more integration with vRealize Automation / vCloud Automation Center so we can publish Application Services blueprints to the vRealize Automation catalog. First we need to define a cloud provider;

While logged in as Luke, the user we gave all of the Application Services roles to, click on the Applications pull down menu and select Cloud Providers
Click the Create Cloud Provider button/box
Click the Cloud Provider Type pull down and notice what options are available – vCloud 5.x, vCAC and EC2. What about vCloud Air – can we use that? If you said yes you are correct because vCloud Air is based on vCloud Director.
Enter the information like so (note some of the boxes appear “greyed out” – they are not, just a poor choice for background colors) and click the Validate Connection button

VMware vCloud Automation Center / vRealize Application Serivces validate cloud provider

Notice that you have to use an upper case domain, I’m curious as to why but in any case its the only way that worked for me
Next in the lower half of the screen (not pictured above) in the templates section, click the green plus icon
You should see the CentOS-Template catalog item we previously published in the vRealize Automation catalog; click the check mark next to the desired template and click OK
Click the Save button in the upper right hand corner

We now have the first step in setting up Application Services complete, up next we will create a Deployment Enviornment