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Setting Up Organizations and Workspaces, Create an Organization

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4 Setting Up Organizations and Workspaces 4 Lab Manager organizations and workspaces include resources and users. You can use these organizations and workspaces to control which users have access to which resources. Lab Manager has access to the resources of the vCenter Server system to which it is connected. A system administrator can assign some or all of these resources to an organization. Users in that organization only have access to their assigned resources. An organization can have dedicated resources or share resources with other organizations. In an organization, an administrator can create workspaces and assign some or all of the organization resources to each workspace. A workspace can have dedicated resources or share resources with other workspaces. These levels of granularity provide the system administrator with control over system resources. This chapter includes the following topics:  "Create an Organization" on page 27  "Create a Workspace" on page 28 Create an Organization Lab Manager includes an organization named Default. A system administrator can create additional organizations. For example, you can create an organization for IT, one for human resources, one for engineering, and so on. When you add a resource pool to a new organization, Lab Manager also adds all its hosts, datastores, and media stores to the organization. To add an organization 1 In the left pane, click Organizations. 2 Select Global from the Organization drop‐down menu. 3 Click New Organization. 4 Type a name. 5 (Optional) Type a description. 6 Select one or more resource pools from Available and move them to Selected. 7 Select one or more host spanning transport networks from Available and move them to Selected. 8 Select one or more physical networks from Available and move them to Selected. 9 Click Import Members. 10 Select your search option from the Look for drop‐down menu. 11 Type your search terms and click Search. Lab Manager displays the first 200 results that match the search terms. VMware, Inc. 27

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Lab Manager organizations and workspaces include resources and users. You can use these organizations and
workspaces to control which users have access to which resources. Lab Manager has access to the resources of
the vCenter Server system to which it is connected.
A system administrator can assign some or all of these resources to an organization. Users in that organization
only have access to their assigned resources. An organization can have dedicated resources or share resources
with other organizations. In an organization, an administrator can create workspaces and assign some or all
of the organization resources to each workspace. A workspace can have dedicated resources or share resources
with other workspaces. These levels of granularity provide the system administrator with control over system
resources.
This chapter includes the following topics:
“Create an Organization”
on page 27
“Create a Workspace”
on page 28
Create an Organization
Lab Manager includes an organization named
Default
. A system administrator can create additional
organizations. For example, you can create an organization for IT, one for human resources, one for
engineering, and so on.
When you add a resource pool to a new organization, Lab Manager also adds all its hosts, datastores, and
media stores to the organization.
To add an organization
1
In the left pane, click
Organizations
.
2
Select
Global
from the
Organization
drop
‐
down menu.
3
Click
New Organization
.
4
Type a name.
5
(Optional) Type a description.
6
Select one or more resource pools from
Available
and move them to
Selected
.
7
Select one or more host spanning transport networks from
Available
and move them to
Selected
.
8
Select one or more physical networks from
Available
and move them to
Selected
.
9
Click
Import Members
.
10
Select your search option from the
Look for
drop
‐
down menu.
11
Type your search terms and click
Search
.
Lab Manager displays the first 200 results that match the search terms.
Setting Up Organizations and
Workspaces
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