vCloud Automation Center – Laying the foundation

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Before we really start to dig into the fun stuff we need to dig a  footing and lay a foundation to build on. In this article I’m going to  create an “Enterprise Group“, a few “Machine Prefixes“, and create a “Provisioning Group“. For those not familiar with these let me explain:

Enterprise Groups

Enterprise Groups contain “Enterprise Administrators” and “Compute  Resources”. When you create an “Enterprise Group” you will give it a  name, assign those that will be the “Enterprise Administrators” and  select the “Compute Resources” that they manage. The general concept of  the “Enterprise Groups” is let’s say you have a group of administrators  that is responsible for managing infrastructure in North America, but  you also have a separate group of administrators that is responsible for  managing infrastructure in Europe. You can create (2) “Enterprise  Groups” one for NA and one for EMEA and in the groups you can map the  appropriate administrators to the “Compute Resources” they manage. This  allows you to separate access to the infrastructure to the appropriate  admins.

Provisioning Groups

Provisioning groups contain your users of the infrastructure. These  are the users that will make requests for servers or applications and  consume resources that are provided by the ‘Enterprise Groups”  Provisioning Groups have a few roles that make them up. The roles are:

• Group Manager Role – The PGMs oversea the group, can access all the  machines in the group, can publish blueprints to the groups, can work on  behalf of the group users, approve requests made by their users and  other groups based administration functions.
• Support User Role- This role is intended for your help desk  organization. The role allows the assigned user(s) to work on behalf of  the groups users to aid in troubleshooting machine issues.
• User Role – These are the consumers. The users are the consumers of  the servers, applications, and resources in your environment. They can  only gain access to what has been provided to the group(s) that they  belong to.

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