Fabric Group creation

Fabric groups is an entity in vCAC that defines the organization of virtualized compute resources and cloud endpoints. Fabric groups are created in a specific organization and map compute resources to the fabric administrators who can manage those resources.

Fabric group by default exist in the default tenant (vsphere.local) and can be used in all tenants by business groups.

To create Fabric group,

Infrastructure --> Groups --> Fabric Groups,

Create Machine Prefix

Machine prefixes are used to generate names of provisioned machines and are shared across all tenants. Make sure you are logged in using the Fabric Administrator else this option will not be visible. Only Fabric Administrators can create the Machine Prefix.

Also this Machine Prefix will be required during the Business Group creation.

Requirements to create Machine Prefix,

1. Machine prefixes must conform with DNS naming restrictions and include only ASCII letters A through Z and digits 0 through 9.
2. There should not be any special characters.
3. For Windows Operating Systems, machine length must be limited to 15 characters.

Tenant Configuration

There are two types of deployments here, one is Single-Tenant and other is Multi-Tenant deployment. In a Multi-Tenant deployment you can add multiple tenants for each organization where each Tenant has its own configuration settings.

You need to login to the vCAC Service portal using the vCenter SSO credentials (administrator@vsphere.local). 

Before you move onto check out Tenants, another important thing is to add License,

DELL PowerVault MD3600i - LUN Creation

1. Click on the 'Storage and Copy services' tab and check if there is sufficient space available. Right click on the container showing Free capacity details and select 'Create Virtual Disk'

DELL PowerVault MD3600i - Host Group Creation

1. Goto 'Host Mappings' tab. Right click on the Array and click create a new Host Group.