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Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal

By : Puthiyavan Udayakumar
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Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal

By: Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Overview of this book

<p>Cloud computing is emerging as a hot technology, thereby creating a lot of new jobs, and providing a lot of opportunities for IT service providers to run and manage clouds. Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager enables cloud builders to manage and deliver any cloud or IT service through a single, comprehensive cloud services platform which unifies and simplifies the commercial, user management, service provisioning, and operational aspects of running a cloud.</p> <p>Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal is a hands-on guide that will help you to learn the installation, configuration, deploying services, managing, and operating of Citrix CloudPortal. It will also help you to take advantage of the real power that is behind CPSM and CPBM and give you a good grounding in operating it in your own enterprises. The book is structured with practical implementations, which are all fully backed up with code and illustrations.</p> <p>Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal will make you aware of the cloud and its implications, starting with aspects of the cloud such as renting, self-service, and the provisioning of services to cloud tenants and their customers. You will also learn how to deploy services on your own using CPSM and CPBM, detailed steps of VM provisioning, setting up a cloud user profile, setting up a catalog, CPBM product management, workflow management, cloud billing, and cloud pricing management. If you want to take advantage of using the new Citrix CPBM and CPSM, then this is the book for you to upgrade your skills.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix® CloudPortal™
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
CCP Connections
Index

Managing products


A product is any component that can be measured with an associated price; it requires one or more brokerage rules. Brokerage rules should match the accurate usage from the service to product. Product definitions are set by the service providers based on the norms they would like to use to segregate the pricing. Service providers must set a product price according to services or offerings.

Operations that can be performed while managing a product using CPBM are as follows:

  • Adding a product

  • Editing a product

  • Retiring a product

  • Adding a product to replace an existing one

Adding a product

We can create a new product to target new resources or to replace a retired product. If it is a fresh product, it has to be created first.

Perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to CPBM as the root user or ops admin.

  2. Click on the Catalog tab and select Plan from the dropdown.

  3. Click on the Add New button from the Products dashboard to add a product.

  4. The Add Product wizard appears. Provide the details (Name...