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Adding a VMware Tenant

A VMware tenant is a logical entity that refers to a dedicated vSphere instance in a specific region. It does not actually provision or deploy virtual machines.

Instead, this is done by using:

  • Sites that define the "type" of compute resources, and
  • Pools that control aspects such as VM creation and user—machine assignment rules.

Before you Begin

Make sure that you have the following details handy:

  • License registration code emailed from us in the form of ABCDEF1234@AB12-C345-D67E-89FG

    Info

    The registration code is not required if you purchased Anyware Manager Enterprise licenses via Azure Marketplace.

  • vCenter credentials

  • Datastore details

  • The company PIN that is used to integrate Anyware Manager Enterprise with HP Workforce Experience. This PIN is created from the HP Workforce Experience dashboard, and is required only if you want to map this tenant to your organization's HP Workforce Experience instance.

Info

After you create a new tenant, you can select any type of site and pool within this tenant, regardless of the type of tenant you chose during the initial onboarding.

Procedure

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Only Organization Administrators and Tenant Administrators can perform this operation.

  1. Log on the Anyware Manager Enterprise.

  2. Navigate to the tenant dashboard by clicking Tenants in the left navigation pane.

  3. Click + Add tenant.

  4. On the Add Tenant page, click Start under VMware. The Enter tenant details window appears.

  5. Under Tenant Details, provide the following demographic details:

    • Location preferences: The Preferred geography and Preferred region for your tenant.

      Info

      The Preferred geography, and Preferred region options determine where the configuration information for your Anyware Manager Enterprise instance is located.

    • Anyware registration details: The Registration code, Tenant ID, and Tenant name.

      VMware Tenant Onboarding Step 1

  6. (Optional) Provide the HP Workforce Experience Company PIN to integrate the tenant with the HP Workforce Experience platform. Once enrolled, you can view your telemetry data for this tenant.

  7. Click Next.

  8. On step 2 of the wizard, install vSphere conductor:

    1. Click Copy command to copy the installation command to clipboard.

    2. Use this command to install vSphere conductor.

    3. Click Next.

      VMware Tenant Onboarding Step 2

  9. Under Validate Anyware vCenter, ensure that the vCenter account details are populated.

    1. Click Validate credentials to validate the vCenter URL and credentials.

    2. (Optional) If Active Directory is available for your vCenter setup, then the Active Directory credentials will be populated under Active directory service account details. Click Validate credentials to validate the credentials

    3. Click Next.

      VMware Tenant Onboarding Step 3

  10. Under Enter vCenter Site Details, provide the following details:

    • Site name: The name of the vCenter Site.

    • Folder: The vCenter folder that contains virtual machines.

    • Hosts or clusters: The single physical server (host) or the group of servers (cluster) that will be used to pool resources.

    • vSphere resource pool: The resource pool associated with this tenant. The pool is used for sharing compute resources.

      VMware Tenant Onboarding Step 4

  11. Under Datastore details, select the data sources where the VM files will be stored.

    VMware Tenant Onboarding Step 5

  12. Click Submit.

If you have followed the steps correctly, you will see a confirmation message on the screen that the tenant has been added successfully.