I wanted to summarize a few things I’ve found when working with VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 (vCAv) over the past few months that will be helpful to providers and tenants. I’m sure there’s others, but these are the ones that come to mind.
Tunnel (Public API) Endpoint
This is a very important step for production deployments – setting the URL endpoint to ensure proper cloud access from tenants and other vCD instances.
The public API endpoint can be configured from the Cloud Replication Management (CRM) under Configuration:

Or can be configured directly on the tunnel:

When one configures it from the CRM, it does push this change to the tunnel appliance over port 8047 (internal communication port between CRM and the tunnel appliance).
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