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CloudAware Virtual Application is a logical unit that allows to organize your resources according to a naming convention or tag of your choice, or any other logic you wish to apply. |
CloudAware Virtual Applications may be created to distinguish:
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Creating an application also makes sense in such cases when, for example, 1) there are AWS, Azure and Physical servers in your Cloudaware environment and you need to provide access to view AWS data only, or 2) only 1 AWS instance should be available for the application user, etc. Note that the sooner you create the virtual application, the better since billing and cost data is not retrospective - it may be collected and shown in the app only starting the day when the application was created.
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Think of the assets that should be attached to the virtual application you will be working on. You may create a list view showing running AWS instances, for example. Consider the logic that can be used for attaching assets in question to different tiers of the virtual application.
Application Creation
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2. Click New CloudAware Application.
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3. Give the virtual application a proper name. Click Create. If everything is fine, you will see a success message.
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Consistency is one of the main challenges you face when you try to be organized. Once of the best practices is to follow relationships between objects and use these relationships to get consistent and auto-updatable inventory.
Cloudaware virtual applications support cascades. This means that once a resource is attached to the application, all related objects will be cascadingly attached as well. For example, once you attach an AWS EC2 Instance, all related EBS Volumes or Network Interfaces will also be attached.
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