Create a basic enterprise

This section describes how to create a basic tenant enterprise for a cloud tenant. For more detailed information, see Manage Enterprises.

To create a basic customer enterprise do these steps:

1. Go to Users
2. At the bottom of the Enterprises list, click the + add button to add an enterprise
   

3. On the General tab

   1. Enter the customer Name
   2. As the Default scope, set the tenant scope

      • The platform will automatically add this enterprise to the scope. Note that if you change the default scope of an enteprise, the platform will not remove the enterprise from its previous scope.

   3. If the enterprise represents the tenant headquarters or similar, select Key node
      
4. Go to Allocation limits and set resource usage limits for the enterprise
   
   • A Hard limit is the maximum amount of a virtual resource (e.g. RAM) that an entity will be allowed to consume. 
   • A Soft limit warns users and administrators that the entity is running out of a resource.

   The rules for creating allocation limits are as follows:

   • You cannot have a hard limit only
   • Soft limits must always be less than or equal to hard limits
   • When a limit is equal to 0, it means that there is no limit to resource usage at this level

   • When editing limits, you cannot set the hard limits below the existing resource usage, except for Local hard disk

   
   
5. On the Datacenters tab, drag and drop providers, datacenters, or regions to Allowed datacenters, to allow the tenant's users to work in them. 
   
   
   1. To configure the tenant in each allowed location, see Configure an Enterprise in a Cloud Location
6. On the Properties tab, for each tenant metadata property, enter a key and value, and click Add
   

   To onboard all public cloud VMs into a single virtual appliance, set the singlevapp property to true. If you wish to configure the name, set the singlevapp name enterprise property:

   "sync.singlevapp":"true",
   "sync.singlevapp.name":"sync vapp name"

7. Optionally add credentials for public cloud. See Add credentials for public cloud
8. Click Save

The platform will create the enterprise and filter to display only this enterprise.