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Add or edit datacenter/cluster — Reference

Refer to the tables below for field descriptions when you want to add or edit a datacenter or cluster in SAM Core on Snow Atlas.

General

The General tab lets you, for example, add information on the name and organization of the datacenter or cluster.

Field label

Description

Name

The name of the datacenter/cluster. (Required)

Organization

The organization node that the datacenter/cluster belongs to. (Required)

Controller

The name of the controller managing the datacenter, if any.

Description

The description of the datacenter/cluster

Hypervisor technology

The Hypervisor technology used in the datacenter/cluster.

When VMware vSphere is selected, information on Datacenter is a VMware DRS cluster is also required.

High availability enabled

If this setting is enabled, it indicates that the datacenter/cluster is configured with high availability (HA).

Datacenter is a VMware DRS cluster

Requires that VMware vSphere is selected as the Hypervisor technology.

If this setting is enabled, it indicates that the VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) feature is enabled for the cluster.

Hosts

The Hosts tab lets you connect hosts to the datacenter or cluster.

Field label

Description

Name

The name of the host.

Operating system

The operating system of the host.

Organization

The organization node that the host belongs to.

Number of VMs

The number of virtual machines running on the host.

Extended coverage

The Extended coverage tab lets you add extended license coverage for applications installed in the datacenter or cluster. For more information, see Extended coverage.

Field label

Description

Application

The name of the application with extended license coverage.

Coverage reason

The reason for the extended license coverage.

Name

The name of the datacenter or cluster from which license coverage is extended.