Add a Cloud Zone

You add a cloud zone and configure its parameters by running a vRealize Orchestrator workflow.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you configured at least one cloud account. See Add a vSphere Cloud Account.
• For information about cloud zones, see Learn more about vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly cloud zones.

Procedure

1. Log in to the vRealize Orchestrator Client as an administrator.
2. Navigate to Library > Workflows and enter the cloud_zones tag in the workflow search box.
3. Locate Create Cloud Zone workflow and click Run.
4. On the Summary tab, configure the cloud zone properties.

   Option	Description
   Host	Select the vRealize Automation host for which you want to configure a cloud zone.
   Region	Select a cloud region.
   Name	Enter a name for the cloud zone.
   Description	Add a description.
   Placement policy	Placement policy drives host selection for deployments within the specified cloud zone. Apply one of the following placement strategies: DEFAULT. Places compute resources on random hosts. BINPACK. Places compute resources on the most loaded host that has enough resources to run the given compute. SPREAD. Provisions compute resources, at a deployment level, to the cluster or host with the least number of virtual machines. For vSphere, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) distributes the virtual machines across the hosts.

5. On the Capabilities tab, add capability tags if you want to support a tagging strategy.

   You can add tags now, or later when you edit the cloud account. For information about tagging, see How do I use tags to manage vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly resources and deployments.

6. Click Run.

Results

You have added a cloud zone.

What to do next

Configure a project and add your cloud zones to it. See Add a Project.