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Scenario: Create and Apply CentOS with MySQL Approval Policies
As the tenant administrator for the development and quality engineering business group, you want to
apply strict governance to catalog item requests. Before your users can provision the CentOS with
MySQL catalog item, you want your vSphere virtual infrastructure administrator to approve the machine
request and you want your software manager to approve the software request.
You create and apply one approval policy for the vSphere CentOS with MySQL service catalog request to
require approval for the machine by a vSphere virtual infrastructure administrator based on specific
conditions, and another approval policy for the MySQL Software component to require approval by your
software manager for every request.
Approval administrators can only create the approvals, and a business group managers can apply them
to entitlements. As a tenant administrator, you can both create the approvals and apply them to
entitlements.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator. Only a tenant administrator
can both create and apply approval policies.
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Ensure that the CentOS with MySQL catalog item is included in a service. See Scenario: Make the
CentOS with MySQL Application Blueprint Available in the Service Catalog.
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.
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Click the New icon ( ).
b Select Select an approval policy type.
c In the list, select Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Virtual Machine.
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