Managing Virtual Data Centers

This chapter contains the following sections:

About Virtual Data Centers

A Virtual Data Center (vDC) is an environment that combines virtual resources, operational details, rules, and policies to manage specific group requirements.

In Cisco UCS Director, a group can have and manage multiple virtual data centers. The system administrator can allocate quotas and assign resource limits for individual groups at the vDC level.

You can also define approvers for a vDC. This person approves user requests for VM provisioning in the vDC.


Note

There is a default vDC to which all discovered VMs are automatically added. These discovered VMs were either created outside of Cisco UCS Director, or existed on the SCVMM account before it was added to Cisco UCS Director.

Managing Virtual Data Centers

    Step 1   On the menu bar, choose Policies > Virtual/Hypervisor Policies > Virtual Data Centers.
    Step 2   Click the vDC tab.
    The vDCs in the Cisco UCS Director are displayed. The vDC tab provides the following actions:
    Action Description

    Refresh

    Refreshes the current page.

    Favorite

    Adds this page to the Favorites tab which displays the page that you go to most often.

    Add

    Creates a vDC in the Cisco UCS Director.

    vDC Creation Wizard

    Provides wizard to configure the policies required to provision a VM on private clouds.

    When you choose a vDC, the following actions appear:

    Action Description

    View

    Displays the vDC details.

    Edit

    Edits a vDC.

    Delete

    Deletes a vDC after confirmation.

    Clone

    Clones a vDC.

    Manage Categories

    Displays categories defined in the vDC.

    Validate

    Validates the vDC.

    Adding a Virtual Data Center

    When completing a service request for VM provisioning, users can view a list of available vDCs for a particular group, and select the appropriate vDC.

    A VM provisioned using a service request is associated with the vDC.

      Step 1   On the menu bar, choose Policies > Virtual/Hypervisor Policies > Virtual Data Centers.
      Step 2   Click the vDC tab.
      Step 3   Click Add.
      Step 4   In the Add vDC dialog box, complete the following fields:
      Name Description

      Account Type drop-down list

      Choose HyperV and click Submit.

      General Information

      vDC Name field

      The vDC name.

      vDC Locked check box

      Check this check box if you want to lock this vDC.

      If checked, this vDC cannot be used for any further deployments. Actions on existing VMs in the vDC are disabled.

      vDC Description field

      The vDC description.

      Group drop-down list

      Choose a group for which this vDC is being created, or click the + icon to add a new group to the selection list.

      Cloud Name drop-down list

      Choose a cloud (SCVMM account) on which you wan to create the VDC.

      Approvers and Contacts

      First Approver Username field

      (Optional) The first approver of the service request created using this vDC.

      Second Approver Username field

      (Optional) The second approver of the service request created using this vDC.

      Approval required from all the users check box

      Check this check box if the approval is required from all the users of the vDC.

      Number of Approval Request reminders field

      The number of reminder emails to be sent to the approvers.

      Note   

      Enter 0 to send reminder emails periodically until the request is approved or rejected.

      Reminder Intervals (Hours) field

      The number of reminder emails to be sent to the approvers.

      Provider Support Email Address field

      The contact user's email address. This user is notified about VM provisioning in this vDC.

      Copy Notifications to Email Address field

      (Optional) The secondary contact user's email address. This user is notified about VM provisioning in this vDC.

      Policies

      Computing Policy drop-down list

      Choose a Hyper-V computing policy for the vDC.

      Network Policy drop-down list

      Choose a Hyper-V network policy for the vDC.

      Storage Policy drop-down list

      Choose a Hyper-V storage policy for the vDC.

      Deploy Policy drop-down list

      Choose a Hyper-V deployment policy for the vDC.

      Cost Model drop-down list

      Choose a cost model for the vDC.

      Disable displaying cost in the SR summary and email page check box

      Check this check box to avoid displaying the cost model in the service request summary and email page.

      User Action drop-down list

      Choose a user action policy for the vDC.

      End User Self-Service Policy drop-down list

      Choose an end user self-service policy for the vDC.

      Step 5   Click Add.