Using branding to make vCloud look different

Let's make vCloud look the way we want it to.

Getting ready

We need a vCloud environment.

We need to download the .css templates from the following VMware KB 1026050. This KB contains three .css files:

  • cloud-director-template.css
  • cloud-director-51-template.css
  • cloud-director-51-login-template.css

In addition to this, we need Adobe Flex SDK that you can download from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/flex-sdk-download.html.

How to do it...

We will now work through the possible changes that can be applied to vCloud.

Changes to vCloud

For all the following actions, we start at the same spot:

  1. Log in to vCloud as SysAdmin.
  2. Navigate to Administration | Branding. You should now see the following screen:

Changing the company ...

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