Creating an Organization

You create a Tenant Org to group related users in Data Management for VMware Tanzu.

Note: Data Management for VMware Tanzu does not allow you to delete an organization after you create it.

Prerequisites

Before you add an organization to Data Management for VMware Tanzu, ensure that you can identify:

• The name and email address of the organization.
• The Instance Configuration Mode that the organization's users will employ when they provision a database: Free Mode or Plans Mode. See Sizing Service Instance Compute Resources for more information about instance configuration modes.
• The LDAP groups to assign to the Organization Administrator and/or Organization User roles (when you have configured an LDAP server for the Data Management for VMware Tanzu installation, and you want to permit LDAP users to manage or provision Service Instances in the organization).

Procedure

Perform the following procedure to create a new organization:

1. Select Organizations from the left navigation pane.

   This action displays the Organizations view, a table that lists the configured organizations.

2. Click CREATE ORGANIZATION in the upper right corner of the view.

   This action opens the Create Organization form.

3. Specify the Organization name and company Email address. The company name must be unique.

4. Select the desired Instance Configuration Mode for the organization.

   Note: If you specify Plans Mode for an organization, you must define at least one instance plan before the organization's users are permitted to provision a database instance.

5. If you configured an LDAP server for the Data Management for VMware Tanzu installation, and you want to enable LDAP users to provision Service Instances in this organization, specify the following LDAP Integration properties:

   Property Name	Value
   Admin Groups	The LDAP groups whose users Data Management for VMware Tanzu should assign the Organization Administrator role in the organization.
   User Groups	The LDAP groups whose users Data Management for VMware Tanzu should assign the Organization User role in the organization.

6. Click ADD to create the organization.

   The new organization is added to the table.

Next Steps

Define an instance plan.
Add a Local user to the organization.
Import LDAP users into the organization.