In Cloud Manager, a zone is a collection of virtual or cloud resources (such as RAM, disk space, computing power, networks, and so forth), that your Cloud Service Provider customers can employ as they provision Business Services through the Cloud Manager Console.
As the Cloud Administrator, you create a zone by defining a connection from the Cloud Manager Application Server to an internal (Cloud Manager Orchestration Server or OpenStack Server) cloud, or to an external (AWS) cloud. Each of these cloud environments is referred to as a “zone provider.”
To create an Amazon EC2 zone:
Specify the following information:
Name: Provide a name for the zone. This name is displayed in Cloud Manager to both administrators and users.
Description: If desired, add details to further identify the zone. The description is displayed in Cloud Manager to administrators only.
Enabled: Deselect this option to disable the zone. The primary purpose for disabling a zone is to perform maintenance tasks on the EC2 region connection without receiving error messages and exceptions in the Cloud Manager console because the connection is down. While the zone is disabled, the following occurs:
A user receives a “Zone Disabled” error when adding, editing, or deleting any Cloud Manager object that includes an EC2 region object.
Any workloads deployed in the zone continue in their current state (unless an issue with the zone causes them to be stopped). The workload’s state displays as “Unknown” and the owner cannot cycle the workload.
NOTE:Although you can configure the zone in a “disabled” state, it needs to be accessible to the Cloud Manager Application Server at creation time so that Cloud Manager can discover various resources in the zone.
Retired: Select this option to retire the zone. Retired zones retain their configuration and workloads. You can import existing workloads or make change requests for them. However, you cannot provision new workloads for the zone. You can select this option when you create a zone in order to hide it from being used at this time.
Account Number: Specify the AWS account ID number to be used by this zone.
Region: Specify the EC2 region code to be used by this zone. For example, us-west-1 or eu-west-1. For more information about region codes, see Amazon EC2 documentation.
Access Key ID: Specify the AWS access key ID to be used by the zone when connecting to AWS.
Secret Access Key: Specify the AWS secret access key to be used by the zone when connecting to AWS.
Click OK to add the zone to the list.
NOTE:No associations of Cloud Manager objects are made with this zone until the connection to the EC2 Region is established. Resource Pricing Packages are created for the EC2 Regions that are discovered.