The design requires the following prerequisites:
- Customer has to acquire all needed software licenses/ keys for all products used in this design before starting implementation
- Customer has to have a SoftLayer account
- Customer has to bear for SoftLayer costs for this implementation
- Customer has to provide connectivity to any on premises environment or systems
- Customer has to provide connectivity to administrators and end users
- Customer has to get and provision the domain name
- Customer has to get hostname prefixes for the SoftLayer bare metal devices commissioned through this design
- Customer should have connection details and necessary credentials for any external systems to this design which are going to be integrated
- Customer has to bear all licensing costs of software products used in this design
When defining the VMware SDDC on IBM Cloud design as a single object, the following are the external users and systems that interface with the cloud design:
The cloud users who frequently interface with this design are mentioned in the following table. It might be possible that there is no direct correlation between different users. Different users can play different roles or more than one role:
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Actor |
Description |
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Cloud admin |
The cloud admin or administrator is responsible for maintaining the cloud services. This includes:
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Service provider |
Manages the cloud services which are provided to the customer users. This includes:
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User |
Consumes the services that the cloud admin allows access to. This typically includes:
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