Cloud Lifecycle Management module

This topic describes how you can integrate various TrueSight Capacity Optimization features with Cloud Lifecycle Management, to manage capacity, provide placement advice, manage virtual machines and their capacity, and perform chargeback in a cloud environment.

For more information, refer to the following sections in this topic:

• Compatibility matrix — This section illustrates the compatibility between different versions of TrueSight Capacity Optimization and Cloud Lifecycle Management.
• Before you integrate the features — Deploy the Cloud Lifecycle Management integration.
• Integrating the features — Integrating TrueSight Capacity Optimization features with Cloud Lifecycle Management.
• After you integrate the features — Begin using the integrated features in TrueSight Capacity Optimization.

Compatibility matrix

The following table illustrates the compatibility between the current version of TrueSight Capacity Optimization and Cloud Lifecycle Management.

TrueSight Capacity Optimization version	Cloud Lifecycle Management version
	4.0	4.1	4.5	4.61
11.0

¹ - Supports up to version 4.6.06. For integration with version 4.6.06 of Cloud Lifecycle Management, apply hot fix CHF#007, or later to TrueSight Capacity Optimization. You can download the hot fix from this location.

Before you integrate the features

Before you can configure each of the features mentioned in the preceding section, you need to deploy the Cloud Lifecycle Management integration in TrueSight Capacity Optimization, and configure the appropriate ETL tasks to import Cloud Lifecycle Management data into TrueSight Capacity Optimization.

To perform these operations, you are required to complete the following tasks:

Integrating the features

After you have completed the tasks mentioned in the preceding section, you can configure the integration of each TrueSight Capacity Optimization feature with Cloud Lifecycle Management.

You must complete the following integration and deployment tasks for each feature, before you begin using them in TrueSight Capacity Optimization.

After you integrate the features

After integrating each of the features as described in the preceding section, you are ready to begin using them in TrueSight Capacity Optimization.

For detailed information on how to use each of these features, refer to the following topics:

Related topics

Verifying and managing the Capacity-Aware Placement Advice integration

Administering integration with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to use the CLM Cloud view

Integrating with Chargeback for BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management