Users Guide

3. On the Template Builder page, click a storage component, click Edit in the box that is displayed, and

then configure the following settings in the

Storage Component dialog box. Repeat this step for

each storage components.

a. In the Component Name box, type the component name. (Optional)

b. Under Storage Settings, configure the following:

1. Enter the unique names for the Storage Volume Name and Storage Pool. (Optional)

2. Update the values of Storage size, Thin Provisioning, Snapshot Reserve %, Thin Min

Reserve %, Thin growth Warning %, Thin growth Maximum %, Thin warning on threshold

%, and Multi-Host access of volume.

3. From the Authentication drop-down list, select authentication type as CHAP.

4. Update the Chap username and Chap secret text boxes for volume access.

4. On the Template Builder page, click the server component, click Edit in the box that is displayed, and

then configure the following settings in the Server Component

dialog box. Repeat this step for each

server components.

a. In the Component Name text box, type the component name. (Optional)

b. Under Hardware Settings section, configure the following settings:

1. Retain the value of Target Boot Device as default value of SD Card.

2. From the Server Pool drop-down list, select the server pool that contains a target server.

c. Under OS Settings, configure the following:

1. To select the administrator password that configures on the deployed OS, in the

Administrator password

text box, type the administrator password. In the Confirm

administrator password box, type the password again to confirm.

NOTE

: It is critical to update the password within this template. The value in the

template is masked, but the actual password is not set. If this password is not set, you

cannot log in to the deployed server.

2. Retain the ESXi value as default in the OS Image Type drop-down list.

3. From the OS Image drop-down list, select an OS for a hypervisor (Example: ESXi 5.1 or ESX

5.5) that are configured and to be deployed within your ASM managed environment.

d. Under Network Settings section, update the network settings accordingly for the hypervisor

that you are deploying and for the configured networks in your environment.

5. On the Template Builder page, click the cluster component, click

Edit in the box that is displayed,

and then configure the following settings in the Cluster Component dialog box. Repeat this step for

each cluster components.

a. In the Component Name text box, type the component name. (Optional)

b. Under Cluster Settings, configure the following:

1. From the Target Hypervisor drop-down list, select the target vCenter.

2. In the Data Center Name and Cluster Name text boxes, type their corresponding names.