VM Essentials as a Multitenancy Cluster?

[AnthonyLyons]

Hello All,

We are trialing Morpheus Enterprise at the moment along with a VM Essentials (HVM) setup with a pair of three node clusters. I have a fundamental question about Morpheus Enterprise + HVM. Can I use a HVM Cluster for a multitenancy environment?

I have a number of smaller customers, currently running on vSphere + VCloud Director and I need to migrate them away this year because of the broadcom licensing...'issue'. My expectation was that i could configure morpheus enterprise with tenants for each of my customers and provision storage. network etc. from the HVM cluster to each customer via the 'Tenant Permissions'. While it does give me the option to assign Networks and Storage on the HVM cluster to a tenant, when I attempt to impersonate the tenant user, I have no option to deploy VMs within the HVM cluster. As a test I connected to an existing vSphere lab cluster I have (via it'a vCenter) and configured the 'tenant permissions' on the network portgroups and storage from the vCenter, plus allocating a Resource Pool for the tenant to use and I was able to provision VMs into the vSphere cluster as the tenant...

The only difference I see is that in vSphere I did have to allocate a Resource Pool for it to work, but in HVM I don't see a similar option other than allocating the entire HVM cluster to a tenant. I hope this isn't going to be a 'You have to configure a HVM Cluster per tenant' answer, cause then HVM isn't a runner for me.

Thanks in advance....

[CalvinZito]

VM Essentials doesn't have multitenancy but Morpheus Enterprise does. One of our VM Essentials product managers mentioned that VMware vSphere doesn't support multitenancy either.  You can read about multitenancy in the software documentation. The link is to v.8.0.13 but you can change it to your version with the drop down box on the top left of the page.