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Table Of Contents
- IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
- Contents
- IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
- Updated Information
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Provisioning with vCloud Air or vCloud Director vApps
- Configuring IaaS for vApps
- Configuring IaaS for vCloud Air or vCloud Director Checklist
- Using Custom Properties in vApp Machine Provisioning, Blueprints, and Build Profiles
- Bringing Resources Under vRealize Automation Management
- Configure Machine Prefixes
- Create a Business Group for vCloud Provisioning
- vCloud Reservations
- Optional Configurations
- Preparing for vApp Provisioning
- Creating vApp and vApp Component Blueprints
- Configuring Advanced Blueprint Settings
- Monitoring Workflows and Viewing Logs
- Machine Life Cycle and Workflow States for vCloud Air or vCloud Director vApps
9 Add users to your business group.
To support vCloud Director integration, the same business group members in the
vRealize Automation business group must also be members of the vCloud Director organization.
You do not have to specify users at this time. You can create empty business groups to populate later.
a Type a user name or group name in the Support role search box and press Enter.
Repeat this step to add more than one user or group to the role.
b Type a user name or group name in the User role search box and press Enter.
Repeat this step to add more than one user or group to the role.
10 (Optional) Add any custom properties.
11 Click OK.
Fabric administrators can now allocate resources to the business group by creating a reservation. This
ability allows business group users to request machines.
What to do next
A fabric administrator must create a reservation. See Create a vCloud Reservation.
vCloud Reservations
A vApp (vCloud) reservation is a share of the memory, networking, and storage resources of a virtual
datacenter that is allocated to a business group.
To provision vApps, a business group needs at least one vCloud reservation. Each reservation is for one
business group only but a group can have multiple reservations on one compute resource or reservations
on multiple compute resources.
The allocation model for a reservation depends on the allocation model in the associated virtual
datacenter. Available allocation models are Allocation Pool, Pay As You Go, and Reservation Pool. For
information about these allocation models, see thevCloud Director or vCloud Air documentation.
In addition to defining the share of fabric resources allocated to the business group, a reservation can
define policies, priorities, and quotas that determine machine placement.
vCloud Reservation Selection
When a member of a business group requests a vApp, a vCloud reservation is selected from the group's
reservations to provision the vApp.
The reservation on which a vApp is provisioned must satisfy the following criteria.
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The reservation must be a vCloud reservation.
If the request specifies an allocation model, the virtual datacenter associated with the reservation
must have the same allocation model.
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The reservation must be enabled.
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