Automators and ASAA
- HyAlto- Getting Started Guide
Once your HyAlto service provider account has been created, you will receive an email that contains a link to complete the registration process. You will be prompted to pick a password for your account and once set, permitted to log in to your portal using your email address and chosen password. Log In and Set Up Your First Automator To log in to your HyAlto
- HyAlto Application Description
Application Architecture HyAlto is a cloud-based SaaS application that facilitates the tracking and billing of vSphere workloads. HyAlto also automates the orchestration of new workloads and change management of existing ones. HyAlto is an application layer that sits atop vSphere and provides a multi-tenanted web portal allowing end-user to perform changes to
- Create a New vCloud Director Catch-All Solution
HyAlto allows you to create a vCloud Director catch-all solution that you can use to map existing virtual data centres (VDC) into HyAlto during a brownfield exercise. Step 1: From your HyAlto portal, click Marketplace, then Solutions. Step 2: In the top right corner, click the orange Add button to add a new solution. Select the appropriate VDC allocation model
- Create a New vCenter Resource Pool Catch-All Solution
HyAlto utilizes vCenter’s tag-based storage policies to track the consumption of storage associated with virtual machines within a resource pool. As a result, the virtual machines inside existing resource pool must be migrated into HyAlto-provisioned resource pools during a brownfield exercise. Before creating the resource pool catch-all solution, please ensure
- Checking Audit Records for Before and After Values - vCenter VM
Follow the steps below to check a Virtual Machine’s values before and after a modification event: Service Portal: For Service Providers, click on Marketplace > Channel Management then click the Green Audit Record icon for the client you want to check: For Clients, click on Account > Access & Roles Find a VM Modification action. The name of the action is service.update.vCenterVirtualMachine
- Deploying Hyalto Service Adaptor
The HyAlto Service Adapter is a VM that allows HyAlto to communicate with your vCloud Director environment. There are two steps you must follow for HyAlto to pull resources from your vCenter or vCloud Director. First, deploy the HyAlto Service Adapter OVA package into your vCenter (or another vCenter if it can see both the vCenter/vCloud Director and HyAlto SaaS
- Hyalto Support for vCloud v10
All Hyalto features supported in vCloud 9.x are also supported in vCloud 10.x. A number of new vCloud 10.x features are under consideration for enhanced support in Hyalto. These consist of Datacenter group functionality - Stretch networks vCloud Availability – replication DRaaS Flex Allocation Model NSX-T VM Sizing Policy Named Disks Hyalto will provide updates
- vCloud vDC Solution Creation - VM Count
When creating a vCloud vDC solution, you have the option to also display how many VM’s are in the vDC for the client to see. The purpose for this is if you want to price the number of VM’s inside each vDC. For example if your adding a price per VM for a disaster recovery service. You will be able to set pricing for VM count in the pricing model And the client
- XaaS Automator & Solution
XaaS (Anything as a Service) allows you as the MSP to create a Solution using a form editor to gather information from the client about certain services you want to sell. The MSP creates a form that the client fills out. Once the client fills out and submits the form, a confirmation email is sent to the MSP with all information the client filled out. At this
- Setting Up Your Hyalto Account for the First Time
Setup your first Automator After you have logged in, click on Hyalto Solutions and select the Automator you wish to setup. You have the option of vCenter, vCloud Director and XAAS. For vCenter and vCloud Director, you will need to download the Hyalto ASA appliance which is located in the top right corner of the Automator configuration window. Click download the
- How Hyalto Reverse-Sync Works
Reverse-Sync is when an action or job is executed inside your VMWare environment (VCSA, VCD, NSX) and Hyalto reflects that change inside the portal. The process, however, differs depending on the environment. Here are the procedures for each environment and how Reverse-Sync is achieved. vCloud Director and NSX Edge Gateway Both vCloud and NSX uses the messaging
- Create a vCloud Automator
Now that the HyAlto Service Adaptor is powered on and ready, you can purchase a vCloud Director Automator in HyAlto. The Automator will allow you to manage your vCloud Director from HyAlto and map certain VMs or organizations to the HyAlto Client. Follow these steps to setup the Automator: From the main screen select “Marketplace” from the side pane. A list
- Map/Unmap a vCloud Organization, External Network and NSX Edge Gateway to a Client
If you have existing vCloud organizations, and you want the client to use a specific org, you can assign them to an org using client assignments (mapping). This allows you to not only assign an org, but also external networks, org vDC’s, and Edge Gateways. Mapping organizations To map an organization to a client, click on “My Services” select your vCloud Automator
- Map/Unmap a vCenter Folder and, Networks to a Client
If you have specific VM folders you want your client to use, you can do so using client assignments (mapping). Mapping allows you to assign a folder and port groups to a client. Mapping VM folders To map a folder to a client, click on “My Services” and select your vCenter Automator, then click on Client Management and select with datacenter to be used to display