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kopper27
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Multitenant vROPs o connecting a customer to my vROPs

hi guys

I was checking some information about this multitenant feature vROPS says they have but not really well documented this is my currect scenario

we have are a service provider we have some cluster running vmware and vCenter and to this vCenter a vROPs is connected all in out internal o management network

we have clusters sharing capacity and some other cluster dedicated to customers and one of this knows vROPs and wants to have now the same reports which is great but

we cannot give a VPN to even an IP in our management environment so I am not sure how to provide the customer visibility to their capacity management and stuff

few months ago I remember I tried something similar with the different component VROPs has and I remembered even with the connector I need from vROPs to connect to another vCenter IP

so has someone implemented something like this or has any idea how to?

thanks  a lot

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daphnissov
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If all they want is to look at reports, why not just set up an ability to have those reports created on a schedule and either be emailed to the customer or something else? Was there some other reason you needed to provide direct access to vROps?

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kopper27
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thanks a lot daphnissov

the thin is they already know that tool and they want to have it in their hands but them the reports are not enough.....

so that means the multi tenant is just a lie from vmware or there are other options

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virtualg_uk
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I would take a look at the document below.

vROps is not "strictly" fully multi-tenancy - all tenants connect to the same IP (Although you can NAT to the UI) But there are a few things you can do to get very close to true multi-tenancy

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vcat/vmware-multitenant-vrealize-o...


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kopper27
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thanks a lot Graham

I was in a meeting and vmware said yes it's multitenant and  I was like mmm really anyway my boss bought it (I mean the idea) like a year ago and know I have to implement it

I found that document and I went through pretty fast but I was not sure that's why I asked here

thanks

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daphnissov
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As Graham says, it's really not "multi-tenant" in the sense that other products like vCD or vRA are. You can achieve somewhat similar results as far as RBAC and segregation to only controlled resources, but that depends on how you have your customer environments structured. I have designed and deployed this for a few MSPs and service providers and achieved this result, but those results vary depending on their environment layout. If you needed true multi-tenancy, the only solution is separate vROps instances.