Getting started

The topics in this section contain information to help you get started using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

BMC Compact Rapid Deployment Stack and Small Rapid Deployment Stack are no longer supported.

This section includes the following topics:

Topic	Description
End-to-end product use	The topics in this section describe specific scenarios which you can use to help you be successful with your cloud implementation. Setting up and using PaaS provisioning - BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management lets you provision a solution stack on top of a computing platform. This functionality is called platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provisioning. This topic describes the full process necessary to set up and use PaaS provisioning. Using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and BMC Server Automation, you can prepare and provision the following server types into the cloud: Setting up and using physical server provisioning Setting up and using bare-metal VM provisioning Setting up and using VM provisioning (from VMware VM template) This set of topics provide an overview and detailed instructions for provisioning servers using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and BMC Server Automation. Calbro Services scenario - Calbro Services is a fictional company that helps to illustrate how BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management principles are used in practice. Learning how Calbro Services uses BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management scenarios should prove useful as you use the solution in your own environment.
Getting started by user role	There are distinct user roles that use BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to manage cloud environments, each with different sets of responsibilities. This topic describes those roles, and the tasks associated with each.
Key concepts	The topics in this section describe the key concepts to help you be successful with your BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management implementation. This section includes the following topics: Business Service Management (BSM) Business value User goals and features Architecture Networking models Glossary
End-to-end cloud management process	BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management provides an end-to-end workflow to help you be successful with your cloud implementation. The workflow provides guidelines for building your cloud, preparing services to be requested and delivered in that cloud, keeping your cloud operational, and retiring services and resources. The workflow is divided into high-level categories meant to be completed in order, with individual tasks within those categories. This topic describes the workflow.

Getting started

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