How to modify branding in vCloud Director portal?

Ensure that before making any customization to branding (color/logo) or theme of VMware Cloud Director, you need to disable branding authorization from VCD cells by running below mentioned command from primary cell by using cell management tool

manage-config -n backend.branding.requireAuthForBranding -v false

Now we can talk about the scope of this blog, plan is to modify:
1) Logo
2) FAV icon (appearing on the right corner of the browser tab)

Action 1: Change default Logo of VMware with my Organization/required logo

HOW:
Step 1: Login to VMware Cloud Director using Postman. Check my previous blog for help.

Step 2: Preparing a new API on postman which will upload a logo image in the VCD existing theme. Method used will be PUT and image format used is *.png and we careful with size as well.

PUT https://VCD_FQDN/cloudapi/branding/logo

Add some additional “Headers” to perform this job

Navigate to “Body” and Select binary, upload the logo which you wish to use. Click on Send.

You will see the response is little different but its successful.

Result:

Action 2: Change default FAV icon of VMware with my Organization/required logo.

HOW:
Step 1: Login to VMware Cloud Director using Postman. Check my previous blog for help.

Step 2: Preparing a new API on postman which will upload a icon image in the VCD existing theme. Method used will be PUT and image format used is png and we careful with size as well.

PUT https://VCD_FQDN/cloudapi/branding/icon

Header remains the same as mentioned in case of logo’s

Navigate to “Body” and Select binary, upload the icon which you wish to use. Click on Send.

Result:

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Samesh Dhankhar

Samesh Dhankhar is Virtualization Solution Architect with one of the biggest Cloud Service Provider in UAE region and has more than 10 years of experience specially with VMware Products.

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