Grant a Network Pool to a VMware Cloud Director Sub-Provider Organization

You can use the Service Provider Admin Portal to grant to your sub-providers network pools.

Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.6, organizations can have sub-provider rights and capabilities that allow them to manage their own tenants. See Overview of VMware Cloud Director Administration. As a service provider, you can grant resources to your sub-providers that they can manage. One of the resources you can grant are network pools.

When you grant a network pool to your sub-provider, they can use this network pool for the creation of their organization VDCs. For each sub-provider organization, you can grant a network pool once. You can grant a network pool to more than one organization.

You can also use the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal to grant network pools to a sub-provider organization. You can start the wizard by selecting Administration from the primary left navigation panel and from the secondary left panel, select Network Pools.

Prerequisites

• Verify that your VMware Cloud Director deployment has at least one NSX network pool. See Network Pools in VMware Cloud Director.
  Note: You cannot grant NSX Data Center for vSphere backed network pools to sub-provider organizations.
• Verify that your VMware Cloud Director deployment has at least one sub-provider organization. See Create a VMware Cloud Director Organization.

Procedure

1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
2. From the secondary left panel, select Network Pools and click the name of a network pool.
3. From the page-level left navigation, select Grants and click New.
4. Enter a name and, optionally, a description for the network pool that you want to grant to a sub-provider.
   The name will be visible to the sub-provider.
5. Click Next.
6. Select the sub-provider which you want using the network pool, and click Next.
7. Set a quota for the maximum number of powered-on networks that the sub-provider can use from this pool.
   The number cannot exceed the maximum number of networks in the pool. For NSX, the default is 100000.
8. Click Next.
9. Review the network pool grant information, and click Finish.

What to do next

• Import Your NSX Edge Clusters to VMware Cloud Director and Grant an NSX Edge Cluster to a VMware Cloud Director Sub-Provider Organization

• To edit or delete a grant, on the Grants page, click the vertical ellipsis () next to the network pool grant name, and click Edit or Delete. When editing the network pool quota, the quota must be larger than the sum of the networks that are already in use.