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About Request Manager
Request Manager is an application used to enhance the governance and control of private clouds that are
managed by vCloud Director. Request Manager can assist you with the management of your vCloud Director
virtual applications, software licenses, and cloud partitions. The major management features are described
below.
VMware vCloud Request Manager is an application that connects to VMware vCloud Director and enables
you to:
Provision virtual applications. Request a new virtual application based on an existing template from a
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vCloud Director catalog. See
Track software licenses. Automatically track software license usage in the cloud. Software licenses can
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be associated with each virtual application template that is published. See the vCloud Request Manager
Installation and Configuration Guide for administration tasks related to software license management.
Create cloud partitions. Request a cloud partition based on an existing cloud blueprint to allocate
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resources for your personal use or for your team. This simplifies the creation process because the cloud is
based on pre-defined policies that are configured by vCloud Administrator. See
Partition,"
on page 18.
Users
The Request Manager User Portal is used by cloud consumers, specifically:
Engineers who need to provision new virtual applications. Users can include QA Engineers, pre-sales
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engineers, developers, trainers, etc., who need to create individual virtual machines and virtual
appliances.
Cloud owners who want to create and manage cloud partitions. Users can include development managers,
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QA managers, pre-sales managers, and training managers who need to create private cloud partitions,
monitor the usage of the partition, and approve requests to start new virtual machines within a partition.
Other Request Manager users can include the following.
The Virtual Infrastructure vCloud Administrators who define the available cloud templates and controls
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access to them.
The asset managers who are responsible for registering the available software licenses.
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VMware, Inc.
"Provision a Virtual Application,"
on page 14.
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