Policy management overview
The Service Governor defines policies that determine how cloud end user requests get mapped to underlying resources. Policies specify the automatic selection of compute, network, and storage pools during provisioning. Policies also let cloud administrators specify selection of resources based on customer-based attributes, such as tenants, service quality, and performance.
This topic contains the following sections:
Tags and tag groups
Tags are the basic tool used to manage the automated provisioning of resources and the placement of services.
The following video provides an overview of tags in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management:
For more advice on tagging, see Tagging-recommendations-and-examples
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
Related BMC Communities blog entry
The following link provides supplemental information available from a blog entry in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Communities:
The Pulse: How Service Governor Policies works in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
This blog entry discusses how Service Governor Policies help determine/selecting underlying resources during “Service Offering instance” provisioning in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.