13.3 Creating Business Groups

Roles that Can Perform This Task: Cloud Administrator, Organization Manager

A business group represents a unit within an organization, such as a department or cost center, with which business services are associated. An organization can have one or more business groups.

A business group can be assigned 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 Organizations.

  2. Click the Business Groups tab, then click Create.

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

    Name: Specify a name for the group. The name should be different than any other business group name.

    Organization: Select the organization for the business group. The organization assignment cannot be changed after the business group is created.

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

    Auto Approval: Business service requests require both a Sponsor approval and an Administrator approval. The Sponsor approval is a financial check, while the Administrator approval is a resource capacity check. You can use Auto Approval to bypass one or both of the approvals.

    Sponsor is selected by default. If you don’t want automatic Sponsor approval, you must add sponsors to the group (see Step 4).

    Select Administrator to automatically grant Administrator approval for the group’s business services.

    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. Show allows group members to see cost information for workloads. Hide to prevent group members from seeing cost information.

  4. Assign roles for the business group.

    There are three roles that apply to a business group: Business Group Viewer, Business Service Owner, and Sponsor. By default, users assigned these roles at the organization also have these same roles in the business group.

    1. Click the Users tab, then click the role (Business Group Viewer, Business Service Owner, or Sponsor) that you want to assign to a user.

    2. Click Add.

      Depending on the role that you are adding, the selection dialog box can contain two lists: Members and System Users. The Members list includes all members of the organization and the System Users list includes all Cloud Manager System users.

    3. Select the users you want to add, then click OK.

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

  5. Add the workload templates that you want the business group to have access to.

    You do not need to assign workload templates to the business group at this time. If you want to do it later, see Section 12.2.2, Assigning Workload Templates to a Business Group when you are ready.

    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.

  6. Add the resource groups you want the business group to have access to.

    You do not need to assign resource groups to the organization at this time. If you want to do it later, see Assigning Resource Groups to Organizations and Business Groups when you are ready.

    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 resource groups.

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

  7. 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 resource groups. 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.

    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.

  8. Click Save.