Create a scope to share resources

The resources in the Catalog (Apps library) include images (VM templates) and blueprints (VApp specs).

You may wish to create and maintain a group of core resources and share these with many tenants.

To share a catalog resource:

1. Create administrator roles with the appropriate privileges to manage the resources
   • To share resources, an administrator must also be able to switch enterprises
2. Define and create scopes as required
   
   • The resource scopes should contain the enterprises that will access the resource
     • The platform allows the user to work with a resource if the user is in a tenant enterprise in the resource's scopes. The platform does not check the user's scope
   • To share resources with ALL current and future tenants, use the default Global scope or create an unlimited enterprise scope
   • To allow an administrator to share resources and manage the tenants, add the tenants to the administrator's scope
   • To allow an administrator to share resources without access to the tenants, add the tenants to one or more scopes, and make the administrator's scope the parent scope
     
3. Log in to the enterprise that owns the resources
   • To modify VM templates, the administrator must be in the enterprise that created the template
   • To create a new version of a VApp spec, the user must work with a VApp created from the spec in the enterprise that created the spec
4. Edit a resource and go to Scopes
5. Select the scopes that contain tenants who will use the resources

Notes:

• 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