Getting started

End-to-end-product-use

The topics in this section describe specific scenarios which you can use to help you be successful with your cloud implementation.

• Setting-up-and-using-PaaS-provisioning - BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management lets you provision a solution stack on top of a computing platform. This functionality is called platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provisioning. This topic describes the full process necessary to set up and use PaaS provisioning.
• Using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and BMC Server Automation, you can prepare and provision the following server types into the cloud:
  • Setting-up-and-using-physical-server-provisioning
  • Setting-up-and-using-bare-metal-VM-provisioning 
  • Setting-up-and-using-VM-provisioning-from-VMware-VM-template 

This set of topics provide an overview and detailed instructions for provisioning servers using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and BMC Server Automation.

• Calbro-Services-scenario - Calbro Services is a fictional company that helps to illustrate how BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management principles are used in practice. Learning how Calbro Services uses BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management scenarios should prove useful as you use the solution in your own environment.

Getting-started-by-user-role

There are distinct user roles that use BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to manage cloud environments, each with different sets of responsibilities. This topic describes those roles, and the tasks associated with each.

Key-concepts

The topics in this section describe the key concepts to help you be successful with your BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management implementation. This section includes the following topics:

• Business-Service-Management-BSM
• Business-value
• User-goals-and-features
• Architecture
• Networking-models
• Glossary

End-to-end-cloud-management-process

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management provides an end-to-end workflow to help you be successful with your cloud implementation. The workflow provides guidelines for building your cloud, preparing services to be requested and delivered in that cloud, keeping your cloud operational, and retiring services and resources. The workflow is divided into high-level categories meant to be completed in order, with individual tasks within those categories. This topic describes the workflow.