Onboarding existing VMs
Quick Start lets you identify existing virtual machines (VMs) and import them into BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management so they each become a service offering instance (SOI). During this process, you identify a tenant and user who function as the owner of the SOIs, and you provide information about the service you want to associate with the VMs.
If the VMs you are onboarding are not already enrolled in BMC Server Automation, the onboarding process automatically enrolls the VMs.
This topic includes the following sections:
See the following BMC Communities video (6:08) for an overview about how to onboard virtual machines through the UI and through the API.
Before you begin
There are many preconditions you should check before onboarding an existing VM using Quick Start:
To onboard existing VMs
- On the Quick Start welcome page, click Onboard Existing Virtual Machines.
The VM Onboard page opens.
Provide information about the owner to be associated with the VM when it is onboarded.
Option Description Select Service Type Type of service that should be associated with the VMs to be onboarded (VMWare, Hyper-V, AWS, or Azure). Select Tenant Tenant organization that should own the SOI. Select User User belonging to the tenant organization that should own the SOI. Provide the following service information that is associated with the VM when it is onboarded.
Option Description Service Offering A previously defined service offering in the service catalog. - Click Next.
The Search Servers page opens. Provide information to search for VMs to be onboarded.
- Click Close.
To validate onboarded VMs
- Navigate to the My Services Console and click the Services tab to view the resource details of the cloud service for the onboarded VM, as shown in the following figure:
Once you onboard the VMs, the status is displayed as Onboarding. - Click the Servers tab and select the onboarded VM to view the details, as shown in the following figure:
Once all the VMs are onboarded, the status is displayed as Running.
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