Connect to a vCloud Director Server

To run cmdlets on a vCloud Director server and perform administration or monitoring tasks, you must establish a connection to the server.

You can have more than one connection to the same server. For more information, see Managing Default Server Connections.

If your login credentials contain non-alphanumeric characters, you might need to escape them. For more information, see Providing Login Credentials.

Prerequisites

If you use a proxy server for the connection, verify that it is configured properly, so that the connection is kept alive long enough for tasks to finish.

Note: If you do not want to use a proxy server for the connection, run

Set-PowerCLIConfiguration
			 -ProxyPolicy
			 NoProxy

Procedure

Run Connect-CIServer with the server name and valid credentials.

Connect-CIServer -Server cloud.example.com -User 'MyAdministratorUser' -Password 'MyPassword'