5.0 Creating an Organization

An organization represents a tenant to which you are offering Cloud services. Through the organization, you make resource group assignments that dictate the hosts, service levels, repositories, and networks available to the organization, and make workload template assignments that determine the types of business service workloads available to the organization.

After you create an organization, you can define the organization’s membership and assign roles such as Business Service Owner, Business Group Sponsor, and Organization Manager to those members. Membership and role assignments are covered in the next task, Creating Users and Groups.

  1. On the main navigation bar, click Getting Started, then click Create Organizations (in the Set Up Your Cloud Environment list).

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    On the main navigation bar, click Organizations, click the Organizations tab, then click Create.

  2. Provide the following details to define the organization:

    Name: Specify a unique name for the organization. You can use letters, numbers, and the following special characters: space, hyphen, underscore, apostrophe, percent, ampersand, and period. The maximum length is 110 characters.

    Description: Provide any additional information to identify the organization.

    Domains: If you want to enable users to self-register in this organization, specify the e-mail domains associated with the organization.

    Self-registration occurs when a valid LDAP user who does not have a Cloud Manager account first logs in. The user’s e-mail domain is compared to the e-mail domains defined for the organization. If it matches one of the e-mail domains, the user is added to organization’s Members list.

    You can associate one or more e-mail domains with the organization. To specify multiple e-mail domains, separate the names with commas (for example, netiq.com,novell.com,attachmate.com).

    Discount %: If you want a discount applied to all business services created by members of this organization, specify the discount percentage.

    Auto Approval: When a user creates a business service request, the request goes through an approval workflow that includes both a Sponsor and an Administrator. The Sponsor is a member of the organization who provides the financial approval for the business service. The Administrator is a System user (such as yourself, another Cloud Administrator, or a Zone Administrator) who provides the resource capacity approval for the business service. You can use Auto Approval to bypass one or both of the approvals.

    The organization inherits the Auto Approval settings from the Cloud Manager system settings (accessed through Configuration on the main navigation bar). To change the settings for the organization, click Override, then configure the settings as desired.

    Logo: You can upload a logo file for the organization. Three formats are supported: PNG, JPG, and GIF. Any size is acceptable. Cloud Manager resizes the logo to a maximum of 216x216 pixels, maintaining the width-to-height proportions. For example, a 432x200 image would be resized to 216x100. The logo file is stored on the Cloud Manager Application Server.

    To upload a file, mouse over No Image, then click Upload New Image. Browse for and select the image, then click OK to upload it to the Cloud Manager Application Server.

  3. Add the resource groups that you want the organization to have access to:

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Resource Groups tab.

    2. Click Add to display the Add Resource Groups dialog box.

    3. Select the resource groups you want to add.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple groups.

    4. Click OK to add the selected resource groups to the Resource Groups list.

  4. Add the workload templates that you want the organization to have access to:

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Workload Templates tab.

    2. Click Add to display the Add Workload Templates dialog box.

    3. Select the workload templates.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple workload templates.

    4. Click OK to add the selected workload templates to the Workload Templates list.

  5. Add the networks that you want the organization to have access to.

    The available networks are determined by the VM hosts included in the resources group. However, to enable you to provide isolated networks for organizations that share the same resource group, the networks from a resource group are not automatically assigned to an organization when you add the resource group. Instead, you must separately add the networks you want assigned to the organization.

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Networks tab.

    2. Click Add to display the Add Networks dialog box.

    3. Select the networks.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple workload templates.

    4. Click OK to add the selected networks to the Networks list.

  6. Ignore the Users tab and the Business Groups tab at this time.

    The Users tab lets you add members to the organization and assign them roles within the organization. The Business Groups tab lets you view the sub-units that have been created for the organization. Creating business groups is covered in the next task, Creating an Organization’s Business Groups. Creating users is covered in Section 7.0, Creating Users and Groups.

  7. Click Save to create the organization and add it to the list.

For more information about organizations, see Section V, Organization Management.