User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Request Manager Installation and Configuration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- About vCloud Request Manager
- Request Manager System Requirements
- Installing Request Manager
- Accessing Request Manager
- Administration Overview
- Active Directory
- Request Manager Roles
- Connecting to Multiple Instances of VMware vCloud Director
- Incoming Email Server
- Workflow Management
- Modify Workflow Approvers
- Modify Approval Emails
- Add an Approval Task to a Workflow Template
- Add a New Approval Email Template
- Assign Email Notification to Recipients
- Change Email Notification Content
- Integrating External Tasks into a Workflow
- Add a Conditional Branching Task to a Workflow
- Configure Request Completion Statuses
- Cloud Blueprints
- Defining Providers
- Polling Service
- About Software License Management
- Index
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The Oracle DBA must configure a new Oracle user with a dedicated schema for Request Manager with
the following minimum privileges:
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CONNECT
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CREATE TABLE
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CREATE PROCEDURE
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CREATE TRIGGER
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CREATE TYPE
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CREATE VIEW
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The Oracle DBA must set up a TNS configuration to the database on the Request Manager server.
Oracle Client Configuration
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installation requires the 32-bit edition of the Oracle client software to be present on the Request Manager
server. The 32-bit edition should be used even if the operating system is 64-bit. Request Manager may
experience problems on servers where the 64-bit edition of the client software is installed or has been previously
installed.
Performance and Scalability
This section provides scalability information for sizing.
Scanning LDAP
Scanning large sites can take a long time. The following test data provides some idea of how long scans can
take.
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First time scans of an Active Directory server with 60,000 users completed in approximately 8 hours.
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Subsequent scans of the same server (updating only changed records) completed in less than half an hour.
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Subsequent scans of the same server (updating all records) completed in approximately 8 hours.
LDAP updates are reflected when the next scheduled scan is run.
See “Active Directory,” on page 31 for more information about configuring and synchronizing Active
Directory.
Scanning vCloud Director
Scanning a large number of vApps and resources can take a long time. The following test data provides some
idea of how long scans can take.
Table 2-4. Average Scan Times for vCloud Director Scans
Typical Extreme Time Taken (Extreme)
Organizations per Private Cloud 5 100 3.7 sec/resource
Members per Organization 20 500 0.3 sec/resource
Catalogs per Organization 2 10 0.8 sec/resource
Catalog Items per Catalog 50 100 1.0 sec/resource
Total Running vApp Instances per vCloud Director
Instance
100 5000 2.1 sec/resource
Running vApp Instances per Organization 50 500 2.1 sec/resource
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