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Viewing and deleting VCF as a Service virtual data centers

Viewing and deleting VCF as a Service virtual data centers

View the summary and detailed information of the IBM Cloud® for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service virtual data centers (VDCs) that are provisioned in your account.

When you no longer need them, you can delete the VDCs that are provisioned in your account.

Procedure to view a summary of virtual data centers

  1. In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation pane.

  2. In the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service table, click the Virtual data centers tab to view a summary of the VDCs that are provisioned.

    Virtual data center summary
    Item Description
    Name The name of the VDC.
    VCFaaS type The consumption model for the VDC: Single-tenant or Multitenant.
    Location The data center where the VDC is deployed.
    Network connection Identifies the connection type: public and private or private only.
    Transit Gateway The status of the Transit Gateway connection.
    Cloud Director instance The name of the site where the VDC is deployed.
    Status The status of the provisioned VDC.

    Click VMware console to create and manage networking and workloads. For more information, see VMware Cloud Director single sign-on with IBM Cloud IAM.

Procedure to view details for a virtual data center

  1. In the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service table, click the Virtual data centers tab. Then, click a VDC name.

  2. On the Summary tab, review the virtual data center details.

    Virtual data center details - single-tenant
    Item Description
    Cloud Director instance The name of the instance where the VDC is deployed. Click View site to access site details.
    Resource pool The name of the resource pool for the VDC. Click View resource pool to access resource pool details.
    Name The name of the VDC.
    Region The region where the VDC is deployed.
    Creation time The date and time that the VDC was created.
    ID The globally unique ID of the VDC. This ID can be helpful to copy if you need to open an IBM Support ticket.
    Public IPs or Private IPs The 6 public or private IP addresses that are assigned to the VDC. For public IP addresses, you can assign them to support public egress and ingress against the VDC and are not intended to enable VDC creation. It is recommended to use the included VDC firewalls when you are using the public IP addresses.
    Network edge type The edge performance type. Available if you provisioned a network edge with your VDC order.
    Network connection The type of network connection of either private only or both public and private.
    Fast provisioning Use the toggle to either enable or disable fast provisioning for the VDC.
    Virtual data center details - multitenant
    Item Description
    vCPU limit and RAM limit The current vCPU and RAM consumption limits. Click Modify limit to enable or disable limits and increase or decrease limits.
    Pricing plan The pricing plan for the virtual data center. Pricing plans are either on-demand or reserved.
    Cloud Director instance The name of the instance where the VDC is deployed. Click View site to access site details.
    Data center The data center where the VDC is deployed.
    Name The name of the VDC.
    Region The region where the VDC is deployed.
    Creation time The date and time that the VDC was created.
    ID The globally unique ID of the VDC. This ID can be helpful to copy if you need to open an IBM Support ticket.
    Public IPs or Private IPs The 6 public or private IP addresses that are assigned to the VDC. For public IP addresses, you can assign them to support public egress and ingress against the VDC and are not intended to enable VDC creation. It is recommended to use the included VDC firewalls when you are using the public IP addresses.
    Network edge type The edge performance type. Available if you provisioned a network edge with your VDC order.
    Network connection The type of network connection of either private only or both public and private.
    Fast provisioning Use the toggle to either enable or disable fast provisioning for the VDC.
  3. On the Add-on services tab, review the available services.

    • Click Open VCDA to open the VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) Console.
    • Click Veeam backups to open the Self-Service Backup Portal.

    You can enable the Veeam® Backup and VCDA services through the Cloud Director site details page if the services are not installed.

  4. For a description of the Interconnectivity tab, see Viewing and deleting Transit Gateway connections.

Procedure to delete a virtual data center

  1. In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation pane.

  2. In the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service table, click the Virtual data centers tab. Then, click the VDC that you want to delete.

  3. Click the Actions... menu, and then click Delete instance.

  4. Confirm that you want to delete the instance.

    The status of the VDC is changed to Deleting. When the VDC is deleted successfully, the components are released, and the status is changed to Deleted.

Alternatively, you can click the delete icon that is located in the VDC row of the Virtual data centers summary table.