Overview of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management configuration

BMC AR System Server and ITSM Suite

1. Add AR User Fixed licenses to BMC AR System Server & IT Service Mgt. Suite – primary and BMC AR System Server - Cloud Database primary host servers, as described in Adding-users-and-applying-AR-User-Fixed-licenses.
2. Follow the steps listed in Enabling-the-TriggerFailsafeUtility-escalation.
3. On the BMC AR System Server & IT Service Mgt. Suite – primary enterprise server, create the following items, as described in To create a provider company and a new cloud administrator user account:
   • The cloud administrator account (You can also update an existing user account with cloud administrator permissions)
   • The provider (tenant) company
   • The organization
   • The location
4. Create a site in the Physical Location form on the BMC Remedy AR System Server and BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite server, as described in Creating-a-physical-location-for-a-pod.

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

1. Configure the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management – Administration Console, as described in Configuring-the-BMC-Cloud-Lifecycle-Management-Administration-Console.
2. Create and configure tenant companies and users, as described in Managing-tenants.
3. Onboard compute resources and create resource pools, as described in Onboarding-compute-resources and Creating-compute-resource-pools.
4. Onboard your network pod into BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, as described in Onboarding-network-pods.
5. Map tenants and compute pools to network containers, as described in
   • Mapping-tenants-to-network-containers
   • Mapping-compute-pools-to-network-containers
6. Create service blueprints, as described in Building-service-blueprints.
7. Create service offerings, as described in Creating-services.
8. (Optional) Create and assign entitlement packages, as described in Creating-entitlement-packages and Selecting-tenant-entitlement-packages.

BMC Network Automation

1. Create a network pod using a pod blueprint, as described in Creating-network-pods and Creating-network-pod-blueprints.
2. Create network containers using container blueprints, as described in Creating-network-container-blueprints and Creating-network-containers.

BMC Server Automation

1. Set up BMC Server Automation for virtual environments, as described in Configuring-BMC-Server-Automation-for-virtual-environments.
2. Create the following in BMC Server Automation, as described in Creating-objects-in-BMC-Server-Automation:
   • Virtual Guest Packages
   • Product Catalog jobs
   • System Packages
   • Virtual machine templates

(Optional) BMC ProactiveNet Server

Set up performance monitoring of devices, including virtual machine monitors (VMMs, also called hypervisors), clusters, and host servers.