vCloud Utilization Perception service has been now broadly obtainable to companions in Cloud Companion Navigator (CPN). The service capabilities are largely preserved in CPN, although some thrilling new options are rolling out solely to companions utilizing CPN.
Some companions may need been notified about having their Utilization Perception occasion migrated. Despite the fact that most of our present companions have already been migrated to a CPN org, the onboarding course of will look a bit completely different for our new companions. This weblog publish will clarify the best way to get onboarded to CPN as a brand new Cloud Supplier companion and begin utilizing vCloud Utilization Perception.
Why is vCloud Utilization Perception now a part of Cloud Companion Navigator?
The mixing of vCloud Utilization Perception into Cloud Companion Navigator is a part of our efforts to enhance our companions’ consumer expertise. With the combination of Utilization Perception into CPN, you’ll quickly have the complete operations and studies performance again in a single place. The Utilization and Commerce integration into CPN permits you to handle your Utilization Meter registrations, test your utilization, and see analytics about your utilization and setting. All whereas shifting your CPN and Commerce Portal login to the identical SSO credentials! Now not worrying about a number of accounts that it is advisable to handle.
Learn how to get entry to Cloud Companion Navigator as a brand new Cloud Supplier
The next info will enable you undergo the Cloud Companion Navigator onboarding course of.
Pre-requisites
- Rental contract with VMware
- VMware Commerce Portal Administrator function utilized to your VCP Consumer.
- No supplier organizations created in both Cloud Companion Navigator or VMware Cloud Providers
Onboarding to Cloud Companion Navigator
- Log in to VMware Commerce Portal (VCP) as a VCP Administrator.
Be aware: Solely a VCP Administrator can request a CPN invite and provoke the CPN org creation.
- Go to Profile on the top-right after which click on CREATE CPN ORGANIZATION.
- Specify the e-mail handle, the primary and final identify of the consumer who will obtain the invite.
Be aware: The consumer that can obtain the CPN invite should have a VMware ID to finish the onboarding.
- Choose Set VMware Cloud Providers as a trusted identification supplier… field. This can set up a safety token in CPN with which a connection between VCP and CPN might be established from the CPN portal. Which means that the onboarded consumer can open VMware Commerce Portal from CPN utilizing a single sign-on.
- Click on ONBOARD CPN.
- Click on OK on the message that seems. It informs you that the CPN org creation is in progress.
- Within the recipient’s mailbox, click on SIGN IN TO CONSOLE. You can be redirected to the VMware Cloud Providers login web page.
- Log in to VMware Cloud Providers. You can be redirected to CPN.
- Identify your CPN group.
- Learn and conform to the VMware phrases and situations.
- Present a rustic and zip code.
- Click on CREATE to begin the creation of your CPN org. After the CPN org is created, in VCP, you will note the ID of that org underneath Profile. You’ll now be mechanically redirected to your CPN group.
Onboarding customers out of your group to Cloud Companion Navigator
It’s important to know that when your group will get onboarded to CPN, the VMware Commerce Portal customers, a part of your group, don’t mechanically obtain entry to CPN. The one consumer who will get mechanically onboarded after the CPN org is created is the consumer whose electronic mail handle the CPN onboarding invite was despatched.
Any customers that want to realize entry to CPN must be onboarded by that first onboarded consumer that turns into the org administrator in CPN. Test the onboarding course of for org customers by one other onboarded consumer within the following weblog publish. Particularly, you will see that info on onboarding different customers out of your group who will achieve entry to your utilization and commerce info in CPN.
Be aware: We advocate that you just add a second consumer, ideally with org admin permissions, for the sake of operational continuity. Having a single consumer might lose entry to the org when that particular person just isn’t obtainable or probably leaves the corporate.
Learn how to begin checking your utilization in Cloud Companion Navigator
With vCloud Utilization Perception performance obtainable from CPN, this makes the latter a single pane of glass for suppliers who can test the utilization of their Rental and Time period contracts with a single sign-on.
Be aware: To test your utilization as a cloud supplier in CPN, it is advisable to have a registered Utilization Meter in VMware Commerce Portal. Test the next info to discover ways to do that.
To test your utilization in CPN:
- Log in to CPN.
Be aware: You might want to have a CPN account with a Billing function assigned. This function permits you to test the utilization of your group in CPN.
- On the house web page of Cloud Companion Navigator, go to the Utilization & Commerce tab.
- Choose the month and 12 months for which you want to test your aggregated utilization. If you choose the present month, then partial utilization might be proven.
- Choose the Utilization Meter identify which utilization knowledge you want to test. Relying on the product you have got deployed in your knowledge middle, the corresponding metrics and reported items might be proven. For extra info on how your utilization per product is detected and calculated, test the Utilization Meter 4.4 Product Detection whitepaper (obtainable by way of Companion Join).
What to do subsequent?
Familiarize your self with Utilization Perception, VMware Commerce Portal, and Cloud Companion Navigator:
- vCloud Utilization Perception info you’ll find right here.
- Discover VMware Commerce Portal info right here.
- Test what else can CPN do for you right here.
- Seek the advice of with the VCPP Product Utilization Information recurrently to be taught what new merchandise and options can be found to you as a VCPP cloud supplier.
When you’ve got any questions concerning the CPN onboarding course of, contact us at navigator@vmware.com or go away a remark under.
