A Cloud Manager role that provides Application Console rights to approve or deny business service requests based on available resource capacity for an organization or zone.
A Cloud Manager role that provides Application Console rights to complete pre-build and post-build configuration for workloads in requested business services.
A subunit of an organization. A business group can be assigned all or some of the organization’s resources (such as its hosts, templates, and networks) to use for deploying business services.
A business group might represent a cost center or a department that needs to deploy business services.
When organization members are associated to one or more business groups, they are assigned rights to use the resources that the business groups provides. For example, an organization member might be assigned as a Business Service Owner or Sponsor for a specific business group.
A Cloud Manager role that provides Application Console rights to view business services for a business group.
A collection of workloads that are deployed together.
A Cloud Manager role that provides Application Console rights to create, modify, and delete business services for an organization or for specific business groups within an organization.
A Cloud Manager role that provides Application Console rights to create, modify, and delete workload templates.
A Cloud Manager role that provides Application Console rights to perform all tasks.
A Web application that can be run on any computer with a supported Web browser. The console is for both Cloud Manager administrators and users. Cloud Manager administrators use the console to organize computing resources so that users can consume them as business services. Users access the console to request and manage business services. Login to the console occurs through an LDAP directory designated as the authentication source.
The server component that supports the Cloud Manager Application Console and communicates with Cloud Manager Orchestration Servers to provide instructions for deploying, managing, and removing business service workloads. It also performs user authentication with the LDAP source.
A client component installed on VM hosts to enable them to be managed by a Cloud Manager Orchestration Server. The hypervisor technology (VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, SUSE Xen, and Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)) determine where the agent is installed.
The administrative interface for the Cloud Manager Orchestration Server. The console monitors and manages the activity of the Orchestration Servers, enabling you to view and troubleshoot jobs associated with workload creation and management.
The server component that receives workload instructions from the Cloud Manger Application Server and directs the creation and management of those workloads by the virtual infrastructure. Depending on the size of your virtual infrastructure, you might have one or many Orchestration Servers.
A computer (that is, a physical machine) that hosts one or more virtual machines (VM).
A tenant for which you are providing Cloud services. You assign resources to the organization that it can use for deploying business services.
An organization includes users (referred to as “members”) who serve in roles within the organization. These roles facilitate the management of business services and the management of the organization. A user can belong to only one organization.
An organization typically represents a company. In the case of a private service provider or enterprise IT department, an organization could represent small company units such as business units, cost centers, and departments.
A Cloud Manager role that provides Application Console rights to manage users, role assignments, resource assignments, and business services within an assigned organization.
A collection of hosts or clusters and their associated resources (CPUs, memory, networks, and storage). In VMware vSphere environments, a resource group can also be a resource pool.
You can have both dedicated and shared resource groups. A dedicated resource group services only one organization, while a shared resource group services more than one organization.
A set of rights that allows a user to perform specific activities in the Cloud Manager Application Console.
A service level defines resource costs (vCPUs, memory, networks, and storage) for a business service. If desired, it can also define service objectives relating to such items as business service uptime, computing performance, or support availability. Any cost associated with an objective becomes part of the service level cost.
A measurable objective such as business service uptime, support availability, or support response time. Each objective can have a cost associated with it. When added to a service level, the objective’s cost becomes part of the service level cost.
A Cloud Manager Application Console role that provides rights to approve or deny business service requests based on an organization’s financial policies.
A virtual machine.
A template used to create a workload. The template defines the VM template from which the workload is created and allows for customizing of the VM template settings to increase or decrease the resources (vCPUs, memory, disk storage, and networks) required for the workload.
A Cloud Manager Orchestration Server and its managed resources (VM hosts, VM templates, and so on). The Cloud Manager Orchestration Console might also refer to this as a “grid.”
A Cloud Manager Application Console role that provides rights to manage the resources for one or more assigned zones.