Manage Resource Pools, Policies & Triggers

Overview

Once a resource pool is created, your administrator can customize it by:

• Configuring Virtual Machine (VM) name patterns and lease settings
• Adding Rate cards
• Specifying usage triggers and per-user usage limit policy

Edit Resource Pool

To configure your resource pool, click open the desired resource pool. 

You can edit your resource to:

• Rename your resource pool
• Specify the VM Name Pattern
• Change resource pool capacity
• Set VM Lease for a resource pool
• Change resource pool entitlements

Rename your resource pool

To rename your resource pool: 

1. Click the resource pool you want to rename and navigate to Name.
2. Enter the new name in the text input field.
3. Click Save.

Specify the VM Name Pattern

Your Cloud Management Platform (CMP) administrator can enforce the naming convention for a resource pool. You can use VM Name Pattern place holders to auto-populate your Virtual Machine (VM) names.   

Change resource pool capacity

Your CMP administrator can change the resource pool capacity on the fly. To change the resource pool capacity:

1. Click the resource pool you want to edit and navigate to Capacity.
2. Enter the values for Spend Limit, vCPU, Memory, and Disk capacity in the input text field.
3. Click Save.

Set VM Lease for a resource pool

Your CMP administrator can control your VM usage by specifying the VM Lease per resource pool. If you are an entitled user, you will receive a system-generated notification and an Email stating that your virtual machine lease is going to be terminated. Setting the VM Lease for a resource pool allows you to budget the availability of your cloud resources.

To set the VM Lease for a resource pool:

1. Click the resource pool you want to edit and navigate to Governance Policies.
2. Select the Lease Type and the Duration. 
3. Click Save.

Change resource pool entitlements

Your CMP Administrator can add or remove resource pool entitlements for tenants, users, and groups.

To change the entitlements in a resource pool: 

1. Click the resource pool you want to edit and nnavigate to the Assigned To section.
2. You can add or remove tenants, users, and groups.  
3. Click Save.

Resource Triggers & Policies

The CMP portal lets your Cloud and Tenant Administrators define cloud resource usage triggers. These triggers notify your administrators in the event of a threshold breach. 

To define resource usage triggers for a resource pool:  

1. Click the resource pool you want to edit.
2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Quota Management > Resource Pools > Trigger.
3. Click Save.
   
   You can create as many triggers as required. 

Monitor Resources

The CMP portal allows you to monitor the following resources:

• Spend limit
• Memory
• vCPU
• Storage. 

To monitor a resource : 

1. Click the resource pool you want to monitor.
2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Quota Management > Resource Pools > Select the Resource Pool > Trigger.
3. Select the resource you want to monitor from the Resource dropdown.
4. Select the usage percentage from the Usage dropdown.
5. From the Action dropdown, select the event action that is performed in the event of a threshold breach. 
   You can choose the alert or action that is triggered in the event of a threshold breach:
   • Email Admin & send Alert
   • Only Email Admin
   • Only Send Alert
6. Click + next to trigger criteria, to add a new action.
7. Click - next to trigger criteria, to remove an action.

Usage Policies

Your CMP Administrator can set the per-user usage limits. They can limit your: 

• Spend
• vCPU
• Memory
• Storage usage.

Whenever these limits are breached, additional provisioning will be allocated through the approval process. After a breach, CMP sends out an approval request to the Cloud or Tenant Administrator. Your Cloud or Tenant Administrator can approve or reject your request for additional provisioning.

To specify the usage policies:

1. Click the resource pool you want to monitor.
2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Quota Management > Resource Pools > Select the Resource Pool > Policies.
3. Enter the value for Per User Usage Limit, CPU, Memory, and Disk.
4. Click Save.