Manage Virtual Private Zone configuration for VMware Aria Automation tenants

Provider administrators can manage Virtual Private Zones (VPZs) within Automation Assembler to control infrastructure resource allocation on a per tenant basis. Using the Tenant Management page, administrators can view tenants and VPZ zones and enable or disable VPZs for tenants.

By default, Virtual Private Zones are not allocated to any tenants. You must allocate VPZ's on this page in order to use them with your tenants.

When initially created,VPZ's are enabled by default. An enabled VPZ is ready to be allocated and used with the specified tenant. When VPZ's are disabled, they cannot be used for provisioning or allocated to a tenant. A VPZ can be disabled but still allocated for a tenant.

When a provider administrator navigates to the Tenant Management page, the page shows all available tenants and the administrator can select one. After a tenant is selected, the page shows VPZs currently allocated for that tenant, if any. The administrator can use this page to allocate VPZs to the selected tenant.

When a VPZ is allocated, tenant administrators can add it to their projects, and it becomes available for provisioning by tenant users. After a VPZ is allocated to one tenant, it can be allocated to another tenant.

After a VPZ is enabled, it is ready for use within the specified tenant. Provider administrators can disable VPZ's to facilitate maintenance or tenant re-configuration, and they can provide notification to users of the disablement. If you want to make a VPZ unavailable to a tenant on a more permanent basis, you can de-allocate it. If an existing VPZ is de-allocated from a tenant for some reason, it cannot be used to create deployments from that tenant.

Prerequisites

• Set up multi-tenancy and create Virtual Private Zones as appropriate for your deployment.
• Configure global image and flavor mappings for the VPZ and tenant configuration using the image mapping and flavor mapping menu selections on the left side of the Tenant Management page in Automation Assembler. See Create global image and flavor mapping for VMware Aria Automation tenants.

  You can override these global assignments now or later using the tenant specific image and flavor mapping selections at the top of the Tenant Management page. See Configure tenant specific image and flavor mappings for VMware Aria Automation.

Procedure

1. In Automation Assembler select Manage Tenants.
   The Tenant Management page shows all tenants configured for the administrator's organization in a card view.
2. Click on a tenant to select it.
3. Click the infrastructure management tab to see all allocated VPZ's for the tenant
4. Select Allocate Virtual Private Zone to open a dialog that shows all zones not currently allocated to tenants. allocate the zone to a tenant.
5. Select one or more zones on the dialog and click Allocate To Tenant.

What to do next

After VPZs are allocated, tenant administrators can assign them to projects.

Provider administrators can use the card view of tenants to monitor and manager status of VPZs.

• If you want to disable a tenant, click Disable on the card for the tenant.
• To enable a tenant, click Enable on the card for the tenant.
• If you want to de-allocate a tenant, click Deallocate on the card for that tenant.