In the previous post we talked about Scaling out our newly deployed vIDM Deployment using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. In this post we will take you through the process of Enabling Multi-Tenancy in vRealize Automation 8 Deployment.
Part-1: Configure Load Balancer for vRA 8 and vIDM
Part-2: Deploy vRSLCM, vRA and vIDM Appliances using Easy Installer
Part-3: Scale-Out VMware Identity Manager Deployment
Part-4: Enable Multi-Tenancy for vRealize Automation 8 Deployment
Part-4: Enable Multi-Tenancy for vRealize Automation 8 Deployment
Before we start with Enabling Multi-Tenancy ensure that you have generated and applied VMware Identity Manager and vRealize Automation Certificates using the process shared in the previous post Part-3: Scale-Out VMware Identity Manager Deployment.
The following steps in this final Blog of this Blog series will help us in Enabling Multi-Tenancy and will create 2 tenants for vRealize Automation 8.X Deployment:
1. Before we begin ensure that you have taken snapshot of all the Appliances and you have added your Active Directory under Directory Management in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
2. We can enable Multi-Tenancy under Tenant Management section of Identity and Tenant Management in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager:
3. We will observe a page with 4 recommendations to ensure an easy and error free tenancy experience. Click on ENABLE TENANCY.
3. Ensure that you have taken Snapshots for all the Appliances and Trigger an Inventory Sync before clicking on Proceed.
4. On the next screen we will have to supply the name of our default tenant which is tenant in our case and click on ENABLE TENANCY.
5. The request will go through 6 steps including the Step 6 of Initialize vRealize Automation cluster which Stops and Starts vRealize Automation services.
6. Once we have successfully Enabled Tenancy, we can go back to Tenant Management in Identity and Tenant Management to ADD TENANT.
7. Input the Tenant Name as tenant1 and supply the rest of the details for your tenant.
8. We can copy the Directory from our Default tenant to the new tenant by supplying the Bind DN and Password or Copy the Directory to new tenant later on. For LCM to copy a Directory to a new tenant, the Directory has to be mapped to the Default tenant.
9. Select your vRA Environment. There is a reminder there on this screen to ensure that you have created the Certificates and have applied them to vRA Environment.
10. Run the Precheck and ensure that status reports Successful on completion.
11. Review the details on the Summary screen and click CREATE TENANT.
12. The process of creating a new Tenant takes around 2 mins and after successful creation of new Tenant we can see our new Tenant listed under Tenant Management in Identity and Tenant Management section of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
With that we have come to the end of this 4 Blog series of Deploying and Configuring a Clustered vRealize Automation 8 Environment which is Highly-Available, Clustered, Distributed & Production ready with the capability of Multi-Tenancy.