Regardless of whether you are a private, hybrid or public vCloud provider, securing communication between end tenants of the vCloud portal and the vCloud Director infrastructure usually requires implementing SSL Certificates from a trusted Certificate Authority (CA). The following example uses the QuoVadis CA to issue SSL certificates for vCloud Director.

This process flow shown in Figure 3 includes procedures for requesting, configuring, obtaining, and installing an SSL certificate from QuoVadis.