Deployment Lifecycle

When you register for monitoring services and select the deployment from the service offerings, the request goes through an automated workflow. The request is processed and managed using service portal.

You can deploy monitoring service cartridge using one of the following methods:

Automatic Deployment for an administrator with access to the VMware environment at your organization.
Manual Deployment for deployment without access to the VMware environment when help is needed deploying OVFs.

The manual and automated deployment workflow includes the following operations:

Estimate
Instantiate
Configure
Activate
Test

This chapter describes the deployment workflow of the monitoring service cartridge.