Set up cloud accounts for VMware

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  • Aktualisiert 12. März 2026
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    • A cloud account is the logical representation in Cloud Provisioning and Governance of all or part of your managed cloud infrastructure. A cloud account can include multiple service accounts — even service accounts from different providers. For each service account, you specify which datacenters to include in the cloud account.

    Vorbereitungen

    Role required: sn_cmp.cloud_admin

    Warum und wann dieser Vorgang ausgeführt wird

    See Cloud accounts for detailed information.

    Prozedur

    1. In the Cloud Admin Portal, navigate to Manage > Cloud Accounts.
    2. Click New, enter a unique and meaningful Name and Description, and then select the cloud Provider for the account (VMware vCenter).
      Create a cloud account
    3. Click Next.
      Based on the provider you select, the Service Account field is populated and a list of discovered datacenters appears. If no datacenters appear, click Discover Datacenters to find them. See Discover all datacenters in a service account on-demand for details.
    4. Select one or more datacenters to associate with the cloud account, click Save, and then close the popup.
      The Cloud Account dashboard appears. The datacenters that you selected appear on the Datacenters tab.
    5. Click a datacenter.
      The following lists appear:
      Hinweis:

      If you are on a domain separated instance, only those events that are updated to the CMDB and belong to your domain are visible. Events create configuration items (CI) in the same domain as the cloud service account they are mapped to.

    Nächste Maßnahme

    Repeat the process to create additional cloud accounts as needed. Run Discovery and set capacity limits for each datacenter.