14.3 Assigning Service Levels to Resource Groups

A resource group identifies a collection of VM hosts to which workloads can be deployed. However, a resource group does not includes any costs associated with running workloads on the hosts. A resource group also does not include any service objectives for the workloads (such as host availability or support response time). The resource costs and service objectives are applied to resource groups through the assignment of service levels.

14.3.1 Assigning Service Levels

Roles that Can Perform This Task: Cloud Administrator

  1. On the main navigation bar, click Resources.

  2. Click the Resource Groups tab, select the resource group to which you want to assign a service level, then click Edit.

  3. Under Associations, click the Service Level tab.

  4. Click Add to display the Add Service Levels dialog box.

  5. Select the service level.

    You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple service levels.

  6. Click OK to add the selected service level to the Service Levels list.

  7. Click Save to save the changes to the resource group.

14.3.2 Removing Service Levels

Roles that Can Perform This Task: Cloud Administrator

You cannot remove service levels that are associated with business services deployed in the resource group.

  1. On the main navigation bar, click Resources.

  2. Click the Resource Groups tab, select the resource group from which you want to remove the service level, then click Edit.

  3. Under Associations, click the Service Level tab.

  4. Select the service level to remove.

    You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple service levels.

  5. Click Remove to remove the selected service level from the Service Levels list.

  6. Click Save to save the changes to the resource group.

    If the service level is associated with a business service that is deployed in the resource group, you receive a message stating that the service level cannot be removed.