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A scope is an access list that contains a an access list of resources (enterprises and/or datacenters) to allow access.
You can use scopes to:
Create restricted sets of resources for administrators and users
Share VM templates and configuration blueprints (VApp specs) with a group of tenants, which can be in a tenant hierarchy
Create a tenant hierarchy for pricing, billing, and cost and usage aggregation, which is useful for resellers and large organizations
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You can share resources with your own scope and child scopes of your scope
Each tenant can belong to more than one scope
Each scope can have one parent scope only
The platform will only consider the enterprises in the resource scopes, not the locations.
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Assign scopes to create a reseller hierarchy
You can use a reseller hierarchy for billing, pricing, and to manage and aggregate your cloud costs and usage. To create a reseller hierarchy, assign scopes to reseller, key node, and reseller customer tenants.
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