6.0 Creating an Organization’s Business Groups

An organization includes one or more business groups. A business group represents a unit within the organization, such as a department or cost center, for which business services can be deployed.

A business group can be assigned access to all of an organization’s resources or only some of the resources. When a business service is created for a business group, it uses only the assigned resources. Multiple business groups can be assigned the same resources, which means that the resources become shared resources.

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

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

  2. Provide the following details to define the business group:

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

    Organization: Select the organization where you want to add the business group.

    Description: Provide any additional information to identify the business group.

    Auto Approval: Business service requests require approval from both the group’s Sponsor and an administrator. The Auto Approval settings let you bypass one or both of the approvers.

    The business group inherits the Auto Approval settings from its organization. To change the settings for the business group, click Override, then configure the settings as desired.

    Costs: The business group inherits the Costs setting from its organization. To change the setting for the business group, click Override, then configure the setting as desired. The Show setting allows group members to see cost information for workloads. The Hide setting prevents group members from seeing cost information.

  3. Add the resource groups that you want the business group 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.

      The list displays the organization’s resource groups. A business group is limited to the resource groups assigned to its organization.

    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 business group 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.

      The list displays the organization’s workload templates. A business group is limited to the workload templates assigned to its organization.

    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 business group to have access to.

    The available networks are determined by the VM hosts included in the resources groups you added in Step 3. However, to enable you to provide isolated networks for business groups that share the same resource group, the networks from a resource group are not automatically assigned to a business group when you add the resource group. Instead, you must separately add the networks you want assigned to the business group.

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

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

      The list displays the organization’s networks. A business group is limited to the networks assigned to its organization.

    3. Select the networks.

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

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

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

    The Users tab lets you add members to the business group and assign them roles within the business group. The Business Services tab lets you view the business services that are currently deployed for the business unit. Creating users for the business group is covered in the next task, Creating Users and Groups.

  7. Click Save to create the business group and add it to the list.

For more information about business groups, see Section V, Organization Management.