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Managing Virtual Networks for the IBM Bluemix Infrastructure provider

A Virtual Network enables you to create a logically isolated section in IBM Bluemix Infrastructure (formerly IBM SoftLayer) and securely connect it to your on-premises data center or a single client machine. An IBM Bluemix Infrastructure Virtual Network allows you to extend your data center, build distributed applications, and debug your applications remotely.

This topic describes how to customize BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to manage the IBM Bluemix Infrastructure Virtual Networks. To understand how BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management objects correspond to the IBM Bluemix Infrastructure constructs, see Overview-of-the-IBM-Bluemix-Infrastructure-Provider.

You can perform the onboard, edit, offboard, and mapping a tenant operations on a Virtual Network on the Network Container tab (part of the logical hosting environment) of the Resource Management workspace.

Before you begin

To onboard a Virtual Network

  1. From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window and select Resources.
  2. On the Resource Management page, click Network Containers.
  3. Click Onboard Logical Data Center Onboard_ldc.gif.
  4. In the Onboard Logical Data Centers dialog box, select the Provider name, for example, IBM SoftLayer.

  5. Select the IBM Bluemix Infrastructure account name to be used for onboarding the resources, for example, QuickD.

    OnbVN02.png

    Information

    The Available Logical Data Centers list displays the name of all the logical data centers (LDCs) and the virtual networks associated with your IBM Bluemix Infrastructure account. The name of a LDC is displayed as Your Account Prefix: IBMBluemixInfrastructureDataCenterName (for example, Finance:San Jose1).

  6. From the Available Logical Data Centers list, select a Virtual Network entry, and click Add.
    OnbVN03.png
  7. Click Onboard. 
    The selected Logical Data Center is added to the Network Containers workspace.

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To edit a Virtual Network

  1. From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window and select Resources.
  2. On the Resource Management page, click Network Containers.
  3. Select the Virtual Network that you want to edit.
  4. Click Edit edit.png.

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  5. In the Edit Logical Data Centers window, you can perform the following actions for an IBM Bluemix Infrastructure Virtual Network:

    1. Define or edit the tag values of the Virtual Network and click Save.

      For tagging requirements, see Tagging-recommendations-and-examples.The tag details of Virtual Network are added, as shown in the following figure. For more information, see Creating-tag-groups-and-tags.

      EdtVN2.png

    2. Select Use External IPAM to enable the External IP Address Management for the Virtual Network, and click Save.
      EdtVN3IPAM.png

      For more information, see Enabling-IP-address-management.

To enable VM placement in single or multiple subnets for a Virtual Network

To enable VM placement in the Virtual Network subnets, you must define single or multiple subnets in a Virtual Network address space using the IBM Bluemix Infrastructure Management Portal. Subnets allow you to better organize the storage and applications for your virtual network. An address space of a Virtual Network defines the IP address ranges to assign to resources deployed to the virtual network. You can create subnets within this address range to further define IP address allocation for resources.

When you have onboarded a virtual network in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, the subnets are also onboarded and are visible in the Summary > Network panel.

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To enable VM placement in specific subnets, you must tag the subnet individually and also define the same Network Type tags in the IBM Bluemix Infrastructure service blueprint. For a suggested tagging strategy, see Tagging-recommendations-and-examples. To create or manage tag groups and tags from the Service Designer workspace, see Managing-blueprint-tags.

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To offboard a Virtual Network

  1. From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window and select Resources.
  2. On the Resource Management page, click Network Containers.
  3. Select the Virtual Network that you want to offboard, and click Offboard Logical Data Center minus_button.gif.
  4. When the confirmation dialog box is displayed, click OK.

To map a tenant with a Virtual Network

  1. From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window and select Resources.
  2. On the Resource Management page, click Network Containers.
  3. Select the Virtual Network that you want to map with a tenant.
  4. Click Manage Tenant Mappings TntMp_btn.png.
  5. Select a tenant name from the Available Tenants list.

    MpVN1.png
  6. Click Add.
    The selected tenant is displayed in the Mapped Tenants list.

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  7. Click Save.

Where to go from here

Managing-the-IBM-Bluemix-Infrastructure-service-offerings

 

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