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Procedure
1 Scenario: Create a CentOS with MySQL Virtual Machine Approval Policy on page 394
As the tenant administrator you want to ensure that the development and quality engineering group
receives virtual machines that are properly provisioned in your environment, so you create an
approval policy that requires pre approval for certain types of requests.
2 Scenario: Create a MySQL Software Component Approval Policy on page 395
As the tenant administrator, your software managers asked you to create and apply approval policies
for MySQL installations to track licensing usage. You create a policy to notify the software license
manager whenever the MySQL for Linux Virtual Machines Software component is requested.
3 Scenario: Apply Approval Policies to CentOS with MySQL Components on page 396
As the tenant administrator, you can create approval policies and entitlements. You modify the Dev
and QE entitlement to apply the approval policies that you created so that approvals are triggered
when a service catalog user requests the item.
Scenario: Create a CentOS with MySQL Virtual Machine Approval Policy
As the tenant administrator you want to ensure that the development and quality engineering group
receives virtual machines that are properly provisioned in your environment, so you create an approval
policy that requires pre approval for certain types of requests.
Because the CentOS with MySQL virtual machine consumes vCenter Server resources, you want the
vSphere virtual infrastructure administrator to approve requests when the requested memory is more than
2048 MB or more than 2 CPUs to ensure that the resources are consumed wisely. You also you give the
approver the ability to modify the requested CPU and memory values before approving a request.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Approval Policies.
2 Create an approval policy for virtual machine provisioning.
a
Click the New icon ( ).
b Select Select an approval policy type.
c In the list, select Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Virtual Machine.
d Click OK.
e Congure the following options:
Option Configuration
Name
Enter CentOS on vSphere CPU or Memory VM.
Description
Enter Requires VI Admin approval for CPU>2 or Memory>2048.
Status
Select Active.
3
On the Pre Approval tab, click the Add icon ( ).
4 Congure the Level Information tab with the triggering criteria and the approval actions.
a In the Name text box, enter CPU>2 or Memory>2048 - VI Admin.
b In the Description text box, enter VI Admin approval for CPU and Memory.
c Select Required based on conditions.
d In the Clause drop-down list, select Any of the following.
e In the new Clause drop-down list, select CPUs and congure the clause with the values CPU > 2.
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