Onboarding IBM resources
This topic explains how to onboard IBM resources into BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. It includes the following sections:
Before you begin
Carefully review the following topics:
- Onboarding-and-offboarding-compute-resources
- Creating-compute-resource-pools
There are slight variations when onboarding IBM resources from other compute resources and compute resource pools.
To onboard the IBM frame
- From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window and select Resources.
- Under Quick Links on the left, click Resources under the Compute section.
- Click the Onboard Resource icon
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The Onboard Resource dialog box is displayed. - Select the pod.
- Select the resource type (for example, Virtual Cluster).
- Under Provider Name, select BBSA.
- From Available Resources, select the IBM frame that you want to onboard.
- Click Onboard.
To compute resource pools
- From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window and select Resources.
- Under Quick Links on the left, click Compute Pools under the Compute section.
The list of current compute resource pools is displayed. - Click the Create Compute Pool icon.
The Create Compute Pool dialog box is displayed.
- Type a name for this pool.
- Type a useful description.
- From the Pod menu, select the network pod — that is, the IBM frame — to which this pool will belong.
- From the Resource Type menu, select the type of resources that this pool will contain.
For example, select Virtual Cluster or Virtual Disk Repository (if you are creating a datastore). - From the Provider Type menu, select BBSA.
From the Vendor menu, select IBM.
- From the Hardware Architecture menu, select PowerPC_64.
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