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For cloud platforms, compute resources represent regions rather than specific virtualization hosts.
vRealize Automation collects information about the regions available on each cloud endpoint and an IaaS
administrator can add the regions to a fabric group.
Store User Credentials for Cloud Endpoints
An IaaS administrator stores administrator-level credentials so that vRealize Automation can
communicate with your cloud endpoints. Because the same credentials can be used for multiple
endpoints, credentials are managed separately from endpoints and associated when endpoints are
created or edited.
Prerequisites
Log in to the vRealize Automation console as an IaaS administrator.
Procedure
1 Select Infrastructure > Endpoints > Credentials.
2 Click New Credentials.
3 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
4 Type the credentials in the User name and Password text boxes.
Cloud Platform Description
Amazon AWS Type the access key ID into the User name text box and the Secret access key
into the Password text boxes.
For example:
n
User name: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
n
Password: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
For information about obtaining your access key ID and secret access key, see
the Amazon documentation.
Red Hat OpenStack Type the user name and password for Red Hat OpenStack user account.
The credentials you provide must be a user in the Red Hat OpenStack tenant
associated with the endpoint. If you have multiple Red Hat OpenStack endpoints
associated with different Red Hat OpenStack tenants, you can store the
credentials for a single user who is an administrator in all the tenants, or separate
administrator users for each Red Hat OpenStack tenant.
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Click the Save icon (
).
What to do next
Now that your credentials are stored, you are ready to create an endpoint.
Choosing an Endpoint Scenario
IaaS administrators are responsible for creating the endpoints that allow vRealize Automation to
communicate with your infrastructure. Depending on your environment, the procedure to create the
endpoints differs slightly.
IaaS Configuration for Cloud Platforms
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