Create New Partner

In the Operator portal, you can create partners and configure the settings, so that the partners can manage a group of customers on their own.

Only Operator Superusers, Standard Operators, and Business Specialist Operators can create a new partner.

Note: As an Operator Super User, you can temporarily disable creating new partners by setting the system property session.options.disableCreateEnterpriseProxy to True. You can use this option when SD-WAN Orchestrator exceeds the usage capacity.

In the Operator portal, navigate to Manage Partners.

1. In the Manage Partners page, click New Partner or click Actions > New Partner.
2. In the New Partner window, enter the following details:

   

   Option	Description
   Name	Enter the partner name
   Domain	Enter the domain name of the partner
   VeloCloud Support Access	This option is selected by default and grants access to the VMware Support to view, configure, and troubleshoot the settings of the partner.
   Grant Gateway Management Access	Select the checkbox to allow the partner to create and manage the Gateways.
   Street Address, City, State, Country, ZIP/Postcode	Enter relevant address details in the respective fields.

   Table 1. Initial Partners Admin Account

   Option	Description
   Username	Enter the username in the [email protected] format.
   Password	Enter a password for the partner.
   Confirm	Re-enter the password.
   First Name, Last Name, Phone, Mobile Phone	Enter the details like name and phone number in the appropriate fields.
   Contact Email	Enter the Email address. The alerts on service status are sent to this Email address.

Default Properties

By default, the following properties are assigned to the customers managed by the partner. If required, the partner can modify the settings for each customer.

Table 2.

Option	Description
Gateway Pool	Click Add to select the Gateway Pool from the available list. After adding the Gateway Pools, you can click Modify to add or remove the pools. For more information on Gateway pools, see Gateway Pools.
Software Image	Click Add to select the Software Image from the available list. After adding the Software Image, you can click Modify to add or remove the Images. For more information on Software Images, see Software Images.
Edge Licensing	Click Add to select the Edge licenses from the available list. After adding the licenses, you can click Modify to add or remove the licenses. This option is available only when the value of System Property session.options.enableEdgeLicensing is set to True. Note: The license types can be used on multiple Edges. It is recommended to provide the partners with access to all types of licenses to match their edition and region. For more information, see Edge Licensing.

Click Create.

The new partner name is displayed in the Manage Partners page. You can click the partner name to navigate to the Partner portal and add more configurations to the partner. See Configure Partner Information.