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Raducanu
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Confused using Clound Client

Hello,

i have a working vRA7 installation (very simmilar to the VMware vRA reference architecture for a minimal deployment Page 35)

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vRA Appliance & IaaS server internal IP addresses. vRA Appliance is published to the internet via NAT. All hostnames (internal and external a part of the SAN certificate).

Using the Webinterface of vRA -> Everything fine (corp. network and internet)

Now we have some developers accessing the system external via internet with the Cloud Client 4.1 which getting an error message:

CloudClient>vra login userpass --server privatecloud.domain.de --tenant demo --user demo_admin --password ******************

Error: vra-inf-1.server.domain.de

vra-inf-1.server.domain.de is the internal DNS name of my IaaS host. So if i check the reference architecture picture http://pubs.vmware.com/vra-70/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vrealize-automation-70-reference-architect... Page 35 the user only need access to the vRA appliance, but not to the IaaS host (which is in my case not reachable from the internet).

If i add a manual entry

109.235.xxx.xxx vra-inf-1.server.domain.de

to the hostfile of my client, i can connect (but got not authenticated to the IaaS Model Manager)

CloudClient>vra login userpass --server privatecloud.domain.de --tenant demo --user demo_admin --password *******************

vRA 7.0 login: [ACTIVE], session: [INACTIVE], user=[demo_admin], server=[https://privatecloud.domain.de], tenant=[demo]

IaaS Model Manager login: [INACTIVE]

I also attached the logfiles from the cloud client.

Any reason for this?

Thank you.

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GrantOrchardVMw
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The cloud client uses some private APIs directly on the IaaS server. If there isn't a need for this access (or use of these commands) then don't worry about it.

Grant http://grantorchard.com
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Raducanu
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But why will login fail if the Cloud Client can't resolve the hostname of the IaaS Server?

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