Getting started

The topics in this section describe specific scenarios which you can use to help you be successful with your cloud implementation.

• 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.

• 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.
• Networking use cases - This section describes the use cases for the interactions between BMC Network Automation and BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.
• 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.

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:

• Product overview
• User goals and features
• Architecture
• Networking models
• Glossary

The topics in this section provide an overview of the key features of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. This section includes the following topics:

• Services overview
  
• Resource management overview
  
• Resource types
  
• Tenant management overview
  
• Policy management overview
  
• Quota management overview