Overview
The Cloud Management Platform (CMP) allows Tenant administrators to administer resource governance practices like Resource Entitlement, Restriction, and Budgeting.
Create Quota
To create quota for your tenancy navigate to Service Orchestration > Quota Management > Quotas > Click New This will initiate a quota creation wizard.
Select the cloud provider for which you wish to create a resource for the tenant. click Next
Select the desired availability zone. click Next
Specify the name for the quota and select the quota type. Restricted or Open. If you select the restricted Quota, you need to specify the Spend limit, vCPU, Memory and storage details.
If you select Open quota, Tenant admin still can govern the usage by specifying per-user quota on resource pools. click Next
Click 'Save' to create a cloud resource.
Once your Quota is created, you can update them anytime. Permitted edits are 'Adding Virtual private clouds (VPCs) and Delete the resource (You cannot delete a Quota if it is being actively used by tenant users)
Create Resource Pools from Quota
Your tenant administrator can divide a Quota into resource pools and distribute it among Tenants. To create a Resource Pool for your users:
- Login to your CMP account.
- Navigate to Service Orchestration > Quota Management > Resource Pools > New. Clicking New launches the Resource Pool Creation wizard.
- Select the Quota from which you want to create a Resource Pool.
- Enter a name for your Resource Pool in the input text box.
- Click Next.
- Set the Resource Pool Quota. Note that you can't create a resource pool with values greater than the original quota. In this case, CMP will notify an error as shown below. click Next.
- CMP allows administrators to configure alerts for resource usage triggers. you can specify multiple trigger values for spend vCPU, Memory and disk. You can also specify the desired notification options like 'Email as well as system alert' or any of these. Click Next. This step is optional. You can skip it as well
- Finally, you can entitle this resource pool to your tenant users. You can opt to specify specific users or groups as well.
- Click 'SAVE' to complete the wizard.