Policy management overview

The Service Governor defines policies that determine how cloud end user requests get mapped to underlying resources. It provides the automatic selection of compute, network, and storage pools as defined by policy. It also enables cloud administrators to define placement based on customer-based attributes, such as tenants, service quality, and performance.

Tags and tag groups

Tags manage the automated provisioning of resources and the placement of services. Cloud administrators can specify tags for the following BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management objects:

Tags are associated with tag groups, which standardize the types of tags used in the cloud. For example, the cloud administrator might create a tag group named Location to group all of the tags that specify network locations. The cloud administrator might also create a tag group named SLA for the tags representing different service levels offered to tenants.

Tags are not specified for individual cloud resources. Instead, any taggable object can be associated with the same tag group and tag. For example, a cloud administrator might apply the SLA tag group and the Bronze tag to network container, and the Bronze tag to a compute resource pool, ensuring the placement of Bronze requests to the Bronze-tagged network container and compute resource pool.

Taggable objects can use more than one tag from the same or different tag groups. For example, the cloud administrator can tag a compute resource pool with Bronze and vSphere tags to ensure that only Bronze requests for vSphere hypervisors are provisioned to that compute resource pool. The cloud administrator might also specify that a request from the NYC location be deployed with resources in either a Bronze or Silver compute resource pool.

Consider creating all of the tag groups and tags you expect to need before applying tags to cloud resources. This ensures that you apply tags consistently, and helps you manage your policies more efficiently. BMC recommends that you start with the following tag groups and associated tags:

Policies

Related topics

Service-Governor-workspace-overview
Creating-and-managing-policies
Network-resources-overview
Compute-resources-and-compute-resource-pools-overview
Services-overview
Tenant-management-overview