VMware infrastructure

Create VMware user account for Platform Manager access

When you add a VMware vCenter infrastructure to Platform Manager, you need a VMware user name and password to allow access to vCenter. The user name is added as a permission to the vCenter level with the role of "Extension User," for example, and added as a permission to one of the virtual data centers that the vCenter manages. In this example, this role is called "Virtual resource manager administrator". These roles give Platform Manager access to one of the virtual data centers in the vCenter (which may have multiple virtual data centers).

The username must have permissions added at the vCenter level with a role that enables the extension privileges.
Assign the following privileges in vCenter, as a minimum, to enable instance management in Platform Manager

Extension user role privileges

Extension privileges

Enable:

  • Register extension

  • Unregister extension

  • Update extension

Virtual Resource Manager administrator role privileges

Datastore

Allocate space

Network

Assign network

Resource

Assign virtual machine to resource pool

vApp

Import

Virtual machine

Configuration

  • Add new disk

  • Change CPU count

  • Change resource

  • Memory

  • Rename

Virtual machine

Interaction

  • Power Off

  • Power On

  • Reset

Virtual machine

Provisioning

  • Mark as template

If you prefer to create one role that holds all the required permissions, assign the following privileges:

Extension

  • Register extension

  • Unregister extension

  • Update extension

 

Datastore

  • Allocate space

 

Network

  • Assign network

 

Resource

  • Assign virtual machine to resource pool

 

vApp

  • Import

 

Virtual machine

 

 

 

Configuration

  • Add new disk

  • Change CPU count

  • Change resource

  • Memory

  • Rename

 

Interaction

  • Power Off

  • Power On

  • Reset

 

Provisioning

  • Mark as template

Add a VCenter to the infrastructure collection

Configure vCenter to use the vSphere API. Have the following information ready before you start:

  • server address

  • user name

  • password

Add IP pools (Optional)

VMware virtual machines (vm) created by Platform Manager have IP addresses assigned via one of the following methods:

  1. Hard coded in the Resource Blueprint.

  2. Specified at Platform Instance create time (override which was provided in the Resource Blueprint).

  3. Obtained from a VMware network interface IP Address Pool.

You can add IP address pools to vCenter so that you have IP addresses and related information available when it is needed. In VMware, an IP pool is associated with a VMware network. If there is no IP address available when a resource is created, Platform Manager tries to obtain an IP address from the VMware IP Pool that is associated with the VMware network defined in the Resource Blueprint.