Associate resource offerings with service components

You can associate a resource offering with a service component in a service design. For example, a resource offering for a VMware vCenter VM template can be linked to a Server service component. This association or link ensures that the resource offering will be provisioned when the Server service component is deployed.

You can also associate resource offerings with component templates.

Tasks

• Navigate to (the Resource Offerings tab) — Select a service design version. Click the Designer tab. Select the service component to which you want to add, modify, or delete a resource offering. In the right pane, click the gear icon, select Edit Component, and select the Resource Offerings tab.

• Add — Navigate to the Resource Offerings tab and click Add. If no resource offerings are associated, click the Add icon in the middle of the window. In the Select Resource Offering dialog box, select the Resource Category from the dropdown, select Resource Offering from the list, and click Add.

  A resource offering cannot be associated with a service component if the service component is part of a published design.

• Delete — Click the gear icon next to the resource offering you want to delete. Click Delete and click Yes in the confirmation dialog.

  A resource offering cannot be deleted if the design is in an upgrade path, is upgradable from a previous version of the design, and the resource offering existed in that prior version. Resource offerings that are newly added to the current version of the design can be deleted.

  A resource offering cannot be deleted if the service component is part of a published design.

• Replace Resource Offering — Click the gear icon next to the resource offering you want to replace. Select Replace Resource Offering, and select the replacement resource offering. The displayed resource offerings are not bound to the service component and are of the same resource category and provider type as the resource offering being replaced.

• Navigate to Resource Offering – Click the gear icon next to the resource offering to which you want to navigate. Select Navigate to Resource Offering, which takes you to the resource offering.

• Group — Ctrl-Click to select multiple resource offerings, and click Group on the right panel to create a parallel processing group. You can also click and drag individual resource offerings to group them. Resource offerings in a parallel processing group are executed at the same time.

• Ungroup — Click the gear icon next to a resource offering inside a group and select Remove from Group. You can also ungroup a resource offering by dragging it out of the parallel processing group.

  To ungroup multiple resource offerings at one time, click and select multiple resource offerings and click Ungroup on the right panel.

• Set Processing Order — The processing order of a resource offering specifies the order in which the associated resource offering will be provisioned relative to the other resource offerings added on this service component. The order in which you see the resource offerings are the order in which they will be provisioned. You can click and drag a resource offering or a group of resource offerings and move them around to set processing order.