VMware vCloud Request Manager - 1.0 User’s Guide
Request Manager User's Guide
vCloud Request Manager 1.0.0
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Contents
About This Book
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About Request Manager 7
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The Request Manager User Portal 9
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Request Manager User Portal System Requirements 9
Access the Request Manager User Portal
Request Manager Contents 10
View the Status of Your Requests 10
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Provisioning Virtual Applications from Existing Templates 13
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Provision a Virtual Application 14
Creating Cloud Partitions 17
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Create a Cloud Partition 18
Index 21
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About This Book
This manual, the VMware vCloud Request Manager User's Guide, provides guidance on how to use the Request
Manager User Portal, including provisioning new applications and requesting new clouds.
Intended Audience
This manual is intended for anyone who needs to provision new applications or create and manage cloud
partitions using vCloud Request Manager.
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About Request Manager 1
Request Manager is an application used to enhance the governance and control of private clouds that are
managed
virtual applications, software licenses, and cloud partitions. The major management features are described
below.
VMware vCloud Request Manager is an application that connects to VMware vCloud Director and enables
you to:
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by vCloud Director. Request Manager can assist you with the management of your vCloud Director
Provision virtual applications. Request a new virtual application based on an existing template from a
vCloud Director catalog. See “Provision a Virtual Application,” on page 14.
Track software licenses. Automatically track software license usage in the cloud. Software licenses can
be associated with each virtual application template that is published. See the vCloud Request Manager
Installation and Configuration Guide for administration tasks related to software license management.
Create cloud partitions. Request a cloud partition based on an existing cloud blueprint to allocate
resources for your personal use or for your team. This simplifies the creation process because the cloud is
based on pre-defined policies that are configured by vCloud Administrator. See “Create a Cloud
Partition,” on page 18.
The Request Manager User Portal is used by cloud consumers, specifically:
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Engineers who need to provision new virtual applications. Users can include QA Engineers, pre-sales
engineers, developers, trainers, etc., who need to create individual virtual machines and virtual
appliances.
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Cloud owners who want to create and manage cloud partitions. Users can include development managers,
QA managers, pre-sales managers, and training managers who need to create private cloud partitions,
monitor the usage of the partition, and approve requests to start new virtual machines within a partition.
Other Request Manager users can include the following.
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The Virtual Infrastructure vCloud Administrators who define the available cloud templates and controls
access to them.
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The asset managers who are responsible for registering the available software licenses.
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