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How to Create a Tenant Environment

As a Hosting administrator, you can create an environment for each of your customers named tenants. Each tenant environment contains a complete instance of CA CloudMinder. An instance includes the entire suite of system components, servers, user stores, and databases, all specific to that tenant. After you deploy a tenant environment, you or a tenant administrator can alter the environment to meet custom specifications.

Conceptually, tenant environments are part of a three-tier architecture. The first tier is the hosting environment. A hosting environment is the virtual environment in which you are running CA CloudMinder.The second tier is the hosting container. A hosting container is an object in the hosting environment defined to include everything necessary to run a specific application. The third tier is the tenant environment.

The following diagram shows the steps that you perform to create a tenant environment:

CreateATenant

  1. Deploy a tenant environment.
  2. Confirm the tenant deployment.
  3. Create a tenant administrator.
  4. Add one or more service modules.
  5. Perform additional set-up operations.