Configuring Cisco HCS resources using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

This topic describes how to configure the Cisco HCS resources using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

1. Log on to the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console with an account that has cloud administrator privileges.
2. Onboard a pod by selecting a Cisco HCS location, as described in Onboarding-and-offboarding-network-pods.
3. Import the container blueprint for the onboarded pod, as described in Importing-network-container-blueprints.
4. Create the network container, as described in Creating-network-containers. 
   The following figure shows the settings for creating a network container:
   

5. Onboard a compute resource (virtual cluster), as described in Onboarding-compute-and-storage-resources-for-the-Cisco-HCS-Provider.

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   • A virtual disk repository is automatically onboarded with a virtual cluster. 
   • Select a virtual cluster with the same name as the pod. 
   • After you have onboarded an OS cluster, then during provisioning, a host in an OS cluster will be considered for placement even if the host is not onboarded in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

   
   

6. Update the metadata.

7. Create a virtual cluster compute resource pool for the Cisco HCS Provider, as described in Creating-compute-resource-pools. 
   The following figure shows the settings for the virtual cluster compute resource pool:
   
    

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   For a NOS virtual cluster, you need to place a NOS tag.

   For an OS virtual cluster, you need to place an OS tag.

    

8. Create a virtual disk repository (VDR) compute resource pool for the Cisco HCS Provider, as described in Creating-compute-resource-pools. 
   The following figure shows the settings for the VDR compute resource pool:
   
   
9. Map tenants to the network container, as described in Mapping-tenants-to-network-containers.
10. Map the virtual cluster compute pool to the network container, as described in Mapping compute pools to the network containers.
11. Set up the Cisco HCS tags and policies, as described in Creating-and-associating-Cisco-HCS-tags-and-policies.
12. Create a blueprint, as described in Creating-Cisco-HCS-service-blueprints, according to Cisco HCS Provider service offering specifications.
    Specify the resource set in the blueprint as follows:
    1. In the Installable Resource field in the Compute Resources pane, enter the DML entries for Cisco HCS.
       

    2. In the Network Resources pane, specify the values for Network Interface Cards (NICs) according to the network labels defined in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. 

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       For additional information about creating service deployment definitions and resource sets, see Creating-service-deployment-definitions-and-resource-sets.

13. Create a Service Catalog as described in Creating-cloud-services.

14. Provision VMs in the Cisco HCS Provider, as described in Cloud-end-user-using-My-Cloud-Services-Console. 

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    Users must contact the cloud administrator for the user name and password of the provisioned VMs.

15. To enable support for modify VM operations, perform the following postdeployment tasks:
    1. Create a postdeployment action for CPU and Memory, as described in Creating-a-requestable-offering.
    2. Attach this postdeployment action with the service created for Cisco HCS provisioning.

Where to go from here

Managing-the-Cisco-HCS-service-offerings