Configuring Appliance Provider resources by using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

This topic describes how to configure the Appliance Provider 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 an Appliance Provider location.
3. Import the container blueprint for the onboarded pod.
4. Create the network container.
   The following figure shows the settings for creating a network container:
   

5. Onboard a compute resource (virtual cluster).

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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.
6. Create a virtual cluster compute resource pool for the Appliance Provider.
   The following figure shows the settings for the virtual cluster compute resource pool:
   
   
   
7. Create a virtual disk repository (VDR) compute resource pool for the Appliance Provider. 
   The following figure shows the settings for the VDR compute resource pool:
   
8. Map tenants to the network container.
9. Map the virtual cluster compute pool to the network container.
10. Create a blueprint, according to the Appliance 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 Appliance.

    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.

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

12. Provision VMs in the Appliance 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.

13. 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 Appliance Provider provisioning.

Where to go from here

Onboarding-compute-and-storage-resources-for-the-Appliance-Provider

Managing-the-Appliance-Provider-service-offerings