Specifications

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We have successfully created the template for BEA WLS Virtual Machines which now will be used as a
generic Windows Server 2003 EE SP1 / BEA WLS 9.2 Image.
We will use this template to create our BEA WLS application server nodes (VMs) in later sections.
5.3 Provisioning BEA WebLogic Application Server Virtual Machine
Node from Templates
The BEAVMBase image and template that were created are generic images. So while using “cloning” to
provision instances of WLS nodes in a BEA environment, there are two distinct things that would occur:
1. BEA WLS virtual machine clone creation
2. BEA WLS virtual machine clone customization
Customization of the clone includes customization of the guest OS environment to make the OS image
unique with unique SSID, licenses, network information etc. The application customization to create WLS
instances on top of the operating system will be performed after cloning (either as a custom script or a set of
applicable specific configuration – Ex: creating the BEA domain).