Managing resources

Before resources can be used in the cloud, you must first make BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management aware of those resources. This procedure describes how to set up resource providers and resources within BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management so that they can be used when provisioning services in the cloud. For more overview information about resources, see Resource-management-overview and Resource-provider-overview.

Before you begin

• Ensure that one or more virtual clusters have been configured through BMC BladeLogic Server Automation and exist in the network.
• Ensure that one or more network pods and network container blueprints exist in the registered BMC BladeLogic Network Automation (BBNA) provider instance.

High-level steps for setting up providers and resources

The following outlines the high-level steps to onboard and use resources within the cloud:

1. Register a resource provider, as described in Registering-resource-providers.
2. Onboard a pod into BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, as described in Onboarding-network-pods.
3. Import network container blueprints, as described in Importing-network-container-blueprints.
4. Create a network container, as described in Creating-network-containers.
5. Onboard compute resources, as described in Onboarding-compute-resources.
6. Create a compute pool, as described in Creating-compute-resource-pools.
7. Map compute resource pools to network containers, as described in Mapping-compute-pools-to-network-containers.
8. Configure storage resources, as described in Configuring-storage-resources.

Related topics

Administration-tasks
Resource-provider-overview
Compute-resources-and-compute-resource-pools-overview
 Editing-and-removing-resources