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prestonville
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Alias the vra login portal URL .... can this be done?

We have a request from the business to alias the vRA login portal URLs they put in the browser from the standard      https://<vip appliance fqdn>/shell-ui-app/org/<tenant>/​      to just <tenant name>

As there are multiple tenants we can't do a simple DNS alias. Reading other posts the appliance VIP in the certificates would need changing. Also I think the VIP appliance fqdn from the URL is used as embedded on the appliance as a install parameter, so that might give a problem. Architecture is  vRA 7.3 distributed model with separate appliance VIP, IAAS VIP and IAAS web VIP.

Users keep bookmarking the portal login page with the security info listed hence the bookmarks can't be re-used.

Has anyone found a way of doing shortened portal URLs or friendly names?

Thanks.

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sbeaver
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What I have done is to setup an external webserver that would automatically redirect to the standard URL that way the users only needed to remember the vanity name to connect

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