Managing Regions

When you deploy multi-region object storage clusters and their corresponding
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
servers, you can join the
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
servers from each region, to build a cluster.
If you group multiple regions, you can remove a region from the group.

Add a Region

You can group a single
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
server within a region with the server of another region, or you can add it to an existing group. You cannot merge two groups of
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
extension servers.
When you group multi-region
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
servers, you can activate a tenant organization for multiple regions. The
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
server in the remote region must have an organization, which is associated with the same tenant.
  1. Log in to the
    VMware Cloud Director tenant portal
    .
  2. In the primary left navigation panel, under
    More
    , select
    Object Storage
    .
  3. On the
    Platform
    tab, click
    Add Region
    .
  4. Enter the public endpoint of the
    VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
    server from the region that you want to add.
  5. Click
    Validate
    .
    The validation process checks if the server is qualified, according to different parameters, for example, if TLS is enabled for the server endpoint or if the object storage cluster is configured as a multi-region cluster.
  6. Click
    Save
    .

Remove a Region

After you remove a non-local region, the tenant organization, which is activated on this region is automatically deactivated.
  1. Log in to the
    VMware Cloud Director tenant portal
    .
  2. In the primary left navigation panel, under
    More
    , select
    Object Storage
    .
  3. On the
    Platform
    tab, select the region that you want to remove.
  4. Click
    Dismiss
    .