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
3 Enter details of the Cloud Blueprint.
Depending
on the allocation model selected, the percentage of resources guaranteed need to meet certain
conditions for the request to provision the cloud to complete successfully.
Allocation Model
Conditions
Pay-As-You-Go
Values for % Resources Guaranteed for CPU and memory must be > 0.
Allocation Pool
Values for % Resources Guaranteed for CPU and memory, CPU (GHz), and
Memory (GB) must be > 0.
Reservation Pool
Values for % Resources Guaranteed for CPU and memory, CPU (GHz), and
Memory (GB) must be > 0.
4
Click OK to save your changes and close the window.
The Cloud Blueprint is now available to consumers when requesting a cloud in the Request Manager User
Portal.
Edit a Cloud Blueprint
Use Request Manager to edit a Cloud Blueprint.
Prerequisites
You must be have Blueprint Administrator or vCloud Administrator privileges.
Procedure
1 Click CMDB Items Search in the Request Manager Admin Portal.
2 Click the List icon on the right of the search criterion, CMDB Item Type.
3 Select Service Action and double-click on Cloud Blueprint on the second panel.
Cloud Blueprint is entered in CMDB Item Type and the search criterion is selected.
4 Click Search at the bottom of the search criteria panel.
The search results are shown on the right of the window.
5 Double-click the Cloud Blueprint you wish to edit.
The Cloud Blueprint Details window appears.
6 Modify the details of the Cloud Blueprint and click OK to save the changes and close the window.
You may have to click Edit on the toolbar.
Delete a Cloud Blueprint
Use Request Manager to delete a cloud blueprint.
Prerequisites
You must be have Blueprint Administrator or vCloud Administrator privileges.
Procedure
1 Search for the Cloud Blueprint using CMDB Item Search.
2 Select the Cloud Blueprint to delete and click Delete on the search toolbar.
The Cloud Blueprint is deleted and no longer available to consumers when requesting a cloud in the Request
Manager User Portal.
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