4.2.5.1Cloud Account
4.2.5.1.1Add Cloud Account
Refer to Section 4.2.5.2.1 Create Cloud Environment.
4.2.5.1.2Delete Cloud Account
Function Description:
Administrators can delete cloud accounts.
Precautions:
After a cloud account is deleted, the associated cloud environment and resources will be cleared and cannot be restored, without affecting resources on the third-party cloud platform.
Prerequisite:
A cloud agent has been added.
Steps:
Step 1.Log in to SCP as an administrator.
Step 2.Go to Resources > Resource Overview > Third-Party Public Cloud > Cloud Environment > Account Management.
Step 3.Click Delete of an account.
4.2.5.2Cloud Environment
4.2.5.2.1Create Cloud Environment
Function Description:
SCP supports managing Alibaba Cloud and adding its regions as cloud environments. The created cloud environments can be allocated to tenants to use the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) of Alibaba Cloud directly on SCP.
Precautions:
- It is not supported to manage the same cloud environment with different access keys of an Alibaba Cloud account.
- Adding more than 10 cloud environments to an Alibaba Cloud account requires payment due to Alibaba Cloud’s monthly free API query limit.
- Please recharge overdue Alibaba Cloud accounts on the Alibaba Cloud console; otherwise, service unavailable will be reported when collecting cloud environment data.
Prerequisite:
- The SCP IP address can communicate with the internet.
- An access key ID and secret access key of an Alibaba Cloud account have been obtained, which are unique credentials for accessing Alibaba Cloud APIs. The secret access key works like a login password and serves to sign the access parameters to prevent them from being tampered with. You can log in to the Alibaba Cloud console, place the cursor on your profile in the upper right corner, and click Access Keys to obtain them.
Steps:
Step 1.Go to Cloud Environment > New.
Step 2.Add an account as follows:
• Type: Alibaba Cloud.
• Add Account: Select Create one (Use existing one can be selected subsequently).
• Account Name: Custom Cloud Account.
• Access Key ID: Obtain from the customer.
• Secret Access Key: Obtain from the customer.
• Sync Interval: Resources allocated to the account by Alibaba Cloud will be synced to SCP at a specified interval, which is 60 minutes by default. The shorter the interval is, the more SCP resources will be occupied.
Step 3.Click Next and select the region where the customer’s VMs on Alibaba Cloud are located to create the cloud environment.
4.2.5.2.2Allocate Cloud Environment
Function Description:
Administrators can allocate cloud environments to tenants as dedicated resource pools unavailable to other tenants.
Precautions:
After a cloud environment is allocated to a tenant, the VMs in it cannot be allocated to other tenants.
Prerequisite:
A cloud environment has been created.
Steps:
Step 1.Go to the Cloud Environment page.
Step 2.Click More of the cloud environment then Allocate, select a tenant, and click OK.
4.2.5.2.3Deallocate Cloud Environment
Function Description:
Administrators can deallocate cloud environments.
Precautions:
After a cloud environment is deallocated, it will be unavailable to the tenant.
Prerequisite:
A cloud environment has been allocated to a tenant.
Steps:
Step 1.Go to the Cloud Environment page.
Step 2.Click More of the cloud environment then Deallocate, and click OK.
4.2.5.2.4Delete Cloud Environment
Function Description:
Administrators can delete cloud environments.
Precautions:
After a cloud environment is deleted, local synced data of resources from it will be cleared, without affecting resources on the third-party cloud platform.
Prerequisite:
A cloud environment has been created.
Steps:
Step 1.Go to the Cloud Environment page.
Step 2.Click More of the cloud environment then Delete, and click OK.
4.2.5.3Virtual Machine
4.2.5.3.1Create Virtual Machine
Function Description:
Administrators can create and use VMs on managed Alibaba Cloud directly on SCP for unified O&M.
Precautions:
None.
Prerequisite:
The Alibaba Cloud account balance is sufficient.
Steps:
Step 1.Go to Third-Party Public Cloud > Alibaba Cloud > New.
Step 2.Select a cloud environment and availability zone and click Next.
Step 3.Select the payment type and complete the configuration information such as the VM count and specifications to create elastic VMs.
Step 4.Click Remote Connection of a created VM and enter the VNC password to access its console. If you forget the password, click More to reset it.
4.2.5.3.2Allocate and Deallocate Virtual Machine
Function Description:
Administrators can allocate and deallocate VMs to and from tenants.
Precautions:
A VM that has been allocated to a tenant cannot be allocated to another tenant.
Prerequisite:
A VM has been created.
Steps:
Step 1.Go to the Alibaba Cloud page.
Step 2.Click More of the VM then Allocate, select a tenant or tenant user, and click OK.
Step 3.Click More of the VM then Deallocate to deallocate the VM allocated to a tenant to the platform or the VM allocated to a tenant user to the platform or a tenant.
4.2.5.3.3Delete Virtual Machine
Function Description:
Administrators can delete VMs.
Precautions:
After a VM is deleted, all its resources and information will be cleared, without affecting resources on the third-party cloud platform.
Prerequisite:
A VM has been created.
Steps:
Step 1.Go to the Alibaba Cloud page.
Step 2.Click More of the VM then Delete, and click OK.
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