Adding cloud groups

Cloud groups create isolated environments, such that workloads running in one group are not affected by workloads running in another group.

Before you begin

You must be assigned Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud groups (Read-only permission) to add cloud groups.

About this task

You can use the console, the command line interface, or the REST API to complete this task. For the command line and REST API information, see the Related information section.
Important: If there are not enough resources available in the system to satisfy the requirements of the new cloud group, the operation will fail.

Procedure

  1. Access the console pane. Click Cloud > Cloud Groups.
  2. Click the New icon in the toolbar
  3. Define the cloud group.
    Provide the following information about the cloud group:
    Name
    Provide a name for the cloud group. Each cloud group must have a unique name.
    Description
    Provide a detailed description of the cloud group.
    Type
    Each type defines how resources are allocated to a virtual machine during deployment. Select one of the following types:
    Dedicated
    CPU cores and memory are dedicated. No overcommit for memory.
    Average
    CPU cores are shared and capped. No overcommit for memory.
  4. Click OK.
    The name of the new cloud group is shown in the left pane of the Cloud Groups pane. The right pane contains the configuration settings for the cloud group.

What to do next

Once you create the Cloud Group on IBM Cloud Pak System and you add the compute nodes, log in to the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) user interface with "External Access User" to disable the vCLS agent virtual machines (vCLS VMs). For more information, see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/91890.