vCloud Director series Part 5 - Configuring vCloud Director 5.1 initial setup

This Post is going to explain you the steps to complete the initial configuration of vCloud Director 5.1. Once vCloud Director appliance is deployed successfully from the OVF Template. We need to complete initial installation step for the vCloud Director.

Power on the vCloud Director 5.1 appliance virtual Machine. It will automatically configure the vCloud director appliance based on the values provided during the vCloud Director appliance deployment from the OVF template.



You can open the web browser and type https://<ip of vCloud Director:5400/> to open the vCloud director appliance administrative page.

You can login to the vCloud director appliance virtual machine using the below username and password
username: root
password: vmware


Below Screen is the home page of  vCloud director appliance administrative page.  You can login to the below page using the below default username and password

username: root
password: vmware





Enter the license key for the vCloud Director and click on Next


In the Create a Administrator Account page, Enter the username and password  for the account for site-wide system administrator account. Click on Next.


Enter the vCloud System Name that will help to identify the installation of VMware vCloud Director. Click on Next.

 Review the information provided and click on Finish to complete the vCloud Director initial setup.



vCloud Director 5.1 home page displays the next steps to proceed to complete the setup of  vCloud Director.


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