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Table 61. Choosing an Infrastructure Organizer Scenario
Scenario Role Procedure
Assign cost profiles to your
compute resources and organize
them into fabric groups. If you
have business group manager
privileges, you can continue with
the Infrastructure Organizer
Wizard to import existing virtual
machines.
IaaS Administrator IaaS administrators do not have access to the
Infrastructure Organizer. However, you can
create a fabric group and nominate yourself as
the fabric administrator so that you can leverage
the organizer to quickly place your compute
resources into fabric groups. See Organize
Compute Resources and Import Existing Virtual
Machines.
Assign cost profiles to your
compute resources and import
existing virtual machines.
Fabric Administrator and Business
Group Manager
Import Existing Virtual Machines.
Organize Compute Resources and Import Existing Virtual
Machines
IaaS administrators can leverage the Infrastructure Organizer to quickly assign cost profiles to compute
resources and organize them into fabric groups. Optionally, you can continue with the Infrastructure
Organizer Wizard to import existing virtual machines and bring them under vRealize Automation
management.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as an IaaS administrator.
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Follow the appropriate procedures to store credentials and create endpoints.
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Create the fabric groups to which you want to assign your compute resources.
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(Optional) If you intend to assign cost profiles to your compute resources, a fabric administrators must
create the cost profiles.
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(Optional) If you intend to import existing virtual machines, a tenant administrator or business group
manager must create a blueprint to apply to machines you import.
Procedure
1 Create the Infrastructure Organizer Fabric Group
Create a fabric group that contains all of the virtual compute resources you want to organize and
assign yourself as the fabric administrator.
2 Configure Compute Resources
IaaS administrators with fabric administrator privileges can leverage the Infrastructure Organizer to
quickly organize multiple compute resources into fabric groups.
3 Bring Virtual Machines under vRealize Automation Management
You can import existing virtual machines by assigning them to business groups, reservations,
blueprints, and owners.
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