Consolidated list of configuration settings for Amazon provisioning

The following sections list all the information you must provide when configuring Quick Start to use Amazon to provision virtual machines. You may want to review this list before you start using Quick Start.

Connector settings

Option	Description
User	User name that can be associated with the AWS account credentials that you provide.
Private Key	Contents of the private key file generated and extracted from your AWS account. The private key file is used to authenticate requests to AWS.
Certificate	Contents of the X.509 certificate file generated and extracted from your AWS account. The certificate holds the public key associated with your AWS account.

Environment settings

When defining an environment, provide the following information.

Environment information

Option	Description
Environment Name	Name to identify the Amazon environment.
Description	Descriptive text for the environment.
AWS Account	Name of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account to use to connect to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provider instance or Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Amazon Web Service	One of the following AWS connection options: EC2—Connect to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. VPC—Connect to an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. If you select this option, you must have previously used AWS to create a VPC for the Availability Zone you specify with the Amazon Pod option.
Amazon Pod	An Amazon Availability Zone.
Availability Zone or VPC	Choice of Amazon Availability Zone or Virtual Private Cloud, which determines where in AWS your virtual machines are generated. Availability Zones correspond to geographic areas.

Network information

Option	Description
Subnet	One of the following subnet options: Customer—A default network label for a network container based on Availability Zones. The Customer label does not map to any Amazon entity. Range of IP addresses—The addresses available to the network address.
Network Alias	Identifying name for the network being made available to the VM.

Service settings

Option	Description
Name	Name for the service you want to offer in the service catalog.
Service Description	Descriptive text for the service.
Environment	Environment created when you added an Amazon environment.
Network	Network associated with the environment you selected. If the environment is based on a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and multiple subnets are defined for the environment, you can select one of those subnets. If the environment is based on an Availability Zone, select Customer.
AMI Type	One of the following AMI types: Owned—An AMI that can be used by anyone who subscribes to the service that provides it. Private—An AMI to which you have been granted private access. Public—An AMI that can be used by anyone.
AMI	Name of the AMI to be used. If the AMI Type is set to Public, you must type the name of the AMI rather than selecting from a list.
Key Pair Value	Only available when you set AMI Type to Public. Use Amazon Web Services to create the key pair needed to access an Amazon EC2 instance and obtain the name to be used when the Amazon service is created.
Default Size	Amount of computing capacity provided by the AMI.
Price	(Optional) Amount a user is charged for use of a virtual machine for a specified period of time. For example, 20 dollars per month.
Currency	Type of currency, such as U.S. dollars (USD).
Period	Length of time for which a user is charged for use of a virtual machine.

Tenant settings

Option	Description
Name	Name of the tenant.
Location	Location of the tenant. This location is not necessarily the same as the location of a vCenter server you specify when creating a vCenter connector.
Environment Entitlement	Associates the tenant with an environment.
Offering Entitlement	Identifies the service offerings to which the tenant is entitled. For each offering you select, you must ensure that the associated environment (specified with the Environment Entitlement option) is also selected.

Tenant user settings

Option	Description
First Name	User's first name.
Last Name	User's last name.
Login	User's logon ID
Password	User's password.
Role	One of the following user roles: Cloud Admin—Manage the full life cycle of the cloud environment, including its initial planning, deployment, and configuration, and its continued administration, operation, and maintenance. Org Admin—Manage a subset of the cloud to perform tasks such as monitoring usage, administering virtual firewalls, and maintaining virtual load balancers. End User—Request services, such as the deployment of virtual machines (VMs), through the BMC My Cloud Services Console.
Tenant Company	Tenant that is associated with this user.