Create Reservations & Policies

Reservation is a share of provisioning resources allocated by the fabric administrator from a fabric group and reserved for use by a particular business group.

There are three types of Reservations,

1. Shares of memory, CPU, networking, and storage allocated from one compute resource to a particular business group is called as Virtual Reservation.
2. When a set of Physical Machines are reserved for a particular business group for provisioning it becomes Physical reservation.
3. A cloud reservation provides access to the cloud services to the business group.

Each reservation is for one business group. A business group can have multiple reservations on a

single compute resource. A business group can also have multiple reservations on compute

resources of different types.

Before we create a Reservation we will first create a Reservation policy,

Goto --> Infrastrcuture --> Reservations --> Reservation Policies

Here you can create two reservation policies, one for compute resource and another one for Storage. Give appropriate names and click OK.

Now, Goto Reservations and click New reservation, 

Select the Compute Resource form the drop down and the rest two rows should populate automatically.

Select the Business group and Reservation Policy we create earlier from the drop down.

 Click on Resource Tab, and reserve the Memory. You will see the total memory under the 'Physical' for the compute resource. This is nothing but I have two ESXi hosts with 64GB RAM each.

Also select the Datastore that will take part in deployment and reserve the amount of storage.

Click on the Network Tab, and you will see the Virtual Switches in vCenter listed there. Select the appropriate vSwitch, here you will have to leave the Network Profile blank as we have not created it yet.

However, Network profile can be created before creating the reservations and attached here. That is perfectly fine too.

Once all this set correctly click OK to finish and you will see a new Reservation created.

1. Tenant Configuration.

2. Endpoint & Agent Configuration.

3. Fabric Group creation.

4. Create Machine Prefix.

5. Business Group creation.

6. Create Reservations & Policies.

7. Create Network Profile.

8. Create Blueprints.

9. Create Service Catalogs.

10. Governance and Approval policies.

11. Demo.