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
About vCloud Request Manager 1
vCloud Request Manger is a Web-based application that is an add-on to vCloud Director. Request Manager
identifies the clouds and vApps managed by vCloud Director.
vCloud Request Manager provides enhanced governance and control of private cloud infrastructures based
on vCloud Director. Request Manager:
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Adds sophisticated approval workflows to provisioning requests
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Automatically tracks software license usage
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Enforces standardized settings on cloud partitions
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Request Manager Components,” on page 7
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“How Request Manager Uses Network Ports,” on page 11
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“Preparing to Use Request Manager,” on page 11
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“Installation Planning Worksheet,” on page 12
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“Finding More Information,” on page 13
Request Manager Components
Architecture
vCloud
Request Manager layers over the top of vCloud Director and communicates with it primarily through
the vCloud API. In this way, a single instance of vCloud Request Manager can support multiple private clouds
and even public cloud providers, delivering a unified end user portal and request management across a hybrid
cloud.
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