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NIM is a single tenant application. In a multi tenant or complex environment a customer must install multiple NIM servers for different tenants or different network zones. It multiplies storage and compute used for the infrastructure. It is also difficult to synchronize resources between multiple NIM serves if it is needed.
The proposal is to add a new group resource, which can combine other different types of resources, like:
nim -o define -t customer -a server=master customer1
nim -o allocate -a lpp_source=lpp1 customer1
nim -o allocate -a lpp_source=lpp2 customer1
nim -o allocate -a machine=aix1 customer1
nim -o allocate -a script=myscript customer1
nim -o define -t customer -a server=master customer2
nim -o allocate -a lpp_source=lpp1 customer2
nim -o allocate -a machine=aix2 customer2
In this case machines (standalone or diskless or dataless) which assigned to customer1 can see and use only resources assigned to customer1 and no other resources.
nimclient -l from aix1 would show only the allocated (assigned) resources - lpp1, lpp2, aix1 and myscript, but no other resources.
nimclient -l from aix2 would show only lpp1 and aix2.
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