Add a new cloud

When you pool physical resources into a cloud, they can be partitioned into different virtual machines and used in any project on the domain that needs them.

1. Select Administration > Clouds and click Add New Cloud.
2. Enter a name and brief summary for the cloud.
3. Enter any additional details in Description.
4. Select an owning project for the cloud. The owning project allows the physical source systems in the cloud to be from that project. If you don't specify an owning project, the sources for the cloud can only be systems that are unallocated and don't belong to any project.
   Note: If you want to be able to moderate the cloud, you must select the owning project.
5. Specify whether this is a public or private cloud.
   • A public cloud appears in any project on the site that allows clouds, and is available for other project administrators to include in their list.
   • A private cloud appears only in the project that owns it, so that only the users in that project can allocate systems from it.
6. Specify whether you a want an administrator to be able to moderate the cloud.
7. If you selected the moderate option, enter the maximum number of days you want a host allocation request to remain pending with the administrator.
8. For a moderated cloud, hosts are deleted when they are deallocated. If not, specify whether hosts allocated from this cloud should be deleted when they are deallocated.
9. Specify the maximum time (in days) for which a host can be allocated from this cloud. The default value is 0 and indicates that there is no limit.
10. Enter the number of allowed snapshots for a host allocated from this cloud. The maximum number is 10. A value of 0 indicates that creation of snapshots is not allowed.
11. Click New Cloud.