Requesting VM


Hosting requests are required when there are newly deployed non-containerized applications or when Hadoop is applied.

Prerequisites


Before you start, please make sure of the following.

  • The user account has been assigned the required permissions. If you need to be assigned, please contact Organization Admin.

  • It has been created with information about the corresponding product lines, products and applications. To create a new one, see Creating Product Lines, Creating Products and Creating Applications.

Procedure


You can request VM with the following steps.

  1. Log in to the EOC and select Assets > Hosts in the left navigation bar.

  2. Click Request VM on the host page and complete the configuration of basic information.

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    • Resource Pool: Required, the resource pools are available in both VMware and Azure service provider types. This selection affects the next step of the specification information configuration whether it is a Resource Group or a Data Center. Here, Azure is used as an example.

    • Product Lines: Required, select the product line which the host belongs to.

    • Product: Required, select the product belonging to the product line of this host.

    • Application: Required, select the application belonging to the product. If there is no corresponding application, you need to click New Application to create. For more information, see Creating Applications.

    • Network Zone: By default, network zone is obtained based on the selected Service.

    • Associated Applications: Optional, can select multiple application associated hosts.

    • Comments: Required, enter the reason for requesting VM.

  3. Click Next to complete the configuration of the specification information.

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    • Resource Group: Required, select the relevant resource group when the resource pool is of type Azure. If there is no corresponding resource group, please contact System Admin to create.

    • Data Center: Required, select the relevant data center when the resource pool is of type VMware. If there is no corresponding data center, please contact System Admin to create.

    • Instance Type: Required, it defines the basic properties in terms of compute performance, storage performance, network performance, etc. Select the corresponding instance type.

    • Image: Required, provides the necessary information to run the instance, select the appropriate image.

    • Disk: Optional, add disk type, size and number. Up to 10 disks can be added.

    • Quantity: Required, enter the number of hosts.

    • Duration: Required, select the duration (1 Week/1 Month/3 Months/6 Months/Long Term).

  4. Click Submit, the system generates a host application ticket, and after approval, it will automatically create a host.

Results


After the host is successfully created, you can view the details in the host list and do the following operations.