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
Procedure
1
Open System Administration, select Workflow Management, and click Request Completion Statuses.
The Request Completion Statuses window appears.
2 To create a new request completion status:
a Click Add.
b Type in the name of the new status in the Name column.
c If you want to the status to be available in the Closure Task, select the Closure checkbox.
d Click Save.
3 To delete a request completion status:
a Click Delete.
b Click Save.
4 To change the display order of the statuses:
a Select an entry and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
b Click Save.
What to do next
Configure Workflow Templates.
Cloud Blueprints
Cloud Blueprints define the characteristics of a cloud to ensure certain settings are enforced when the cloud
is created. Examples of these settings are: the number of virtual machines allowed, the allocation model used,
and quotas and limits for the Storage, CPU, Memory, Network, and so on. A Cloud Blueprint must be specified
by the consumer when requesting a new cloud in the Request Manager User Portal.
The benefits of Cloud Blueprints include:
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Requests for cloud provisioning are vastly simplified as the consumer does not need to understand the
details of cloud settings.
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Administration of these clouds is vastly simplified as the number of variations in the environment is
greatly reduced.
Create a Cloud Blueprint
Use Request Manager to create a Cloud Blueprint.
Prerequisites
You must be have Blueprint Administrator or vCloud Administrator privileges.
Procedure
1 Click CMDB Items in the Request Manager Admin Portal.
The New CMDB Item window appears.
2 Select Cloud Blueprint TEMPLATE and click Create from Template.
The Cloud Blueprint Details window appears.
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