Service Governor workspace overview

The Service Governor workspace enables you to create policies that control which available resources are used when a user-requested service instance is created in the cloud. For overview information of policies, see Policy management overview.

You can create policies for:

• Network Containers
• Compute Pools
• Virtual Disk Repository Pools
• Networks
• PaaS Pools

For details about creating policies, see Creating and managing policies.

Features

• Quick Links— Click to create a policy for one of the following:
  • Network Containers
  • Compute Pools
  • Virtual Disk Repository Pools
  • Networks
  • PaaS Pools
• Edit Condition— Each policy type can have multiple conditions:
  • Match Any— This option is available only when multiple conditions are in the table. Match any of the tags specified in any of conditions:
    • A Network Container policy selects all network containers that match any of the tags specified in any of conditions.
    • A Compute Pool policy selects all compute resource pools that match any of the tags specified in any of conditions.
    • A Virtual Disk Repository Pools policy selects all virtual disk repositories that match any of the tags specified in any of conditions.
  • Match All— This option must match all of the tags specified in all the conditions.
    • A Network Container policy selects only the network containers that match all of the tags specified in all of the conditions.
    • A Compute Pool policy selects only the compute resource pools that match all of the tags specified in all of the conditions.
    • A Virtual Disk Repository Pools policy selects only the virtual disk repositories that match all of the tags specified in all of the conditions.
  • Add Condition — This option adds a new condition to the policy.
  • Tag Source — This option specifies whether you are matching tags in a service blueprint or tenant.
  • Tag Group — This option specifies the tag group that contains tags that you want to match.

Related topics

Creating tag groups and tags
Adding and editing policies

Related BMC Communities blog entries

The following links provide supplemental information available from blog entries in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Communities:

The Pulse: How Service Governor Policies works in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 

The Pulse: How Tagging works in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM) 3.1?