Users Guide

Virtual Machine

A Virtual Machine is configured on top of a cluster, while building a template.

After selecting Virtual Machine on the template builder page, perform the following actions:

After selecting Virtual Machine component on the Template Builder page, perform the following actions:

1. In the Virtual Machine Component dialog box, from the Select a Component drop-down list, select

one of the following:

• vCenter Virtual Machine

• Clone vCenter Virtual Machine

• Clone Hyper-V Virtual Machine

2. In the # of Instances box, enter the number virtual machine instances that you want to configure.

3. Under Related Components, select the components that you want to map with the virtual machine

instance. For more information about valid component combinations that can be mapped together

in a template, see Component Combinations in Templates

4. Click Continue.

5. Under Virtual Machine Settings, specify the settings that you want to configure on the virtual

machines and click Add.

For more information about the virtual machine settings, see Virtual Machine Settings

Virtual Machine settings

Virtual Machine Settings (Clone vCenter Virtual Machine)

Field Name Description

vCenter Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine OS Settings

Administrator

password

Specifiy OS administrator password that is set on the installed OS.

Confirm

administrator

password

Enter the password to confirm the administrator password.

OS Image Specifies the target repository where the OS image install files are located. The

default repositories are ESXi. The additional repositories will be shown if the user

created them on the ASM appliance.

OS Image Type Refers to the operating system types (for example: Red Hat, Linux, Windows and

so on.) that are available for deployment. The image type corresponds to the

razor “installers” that are shipped with razor and assist razor in installing a

particular type of operating system. For example, you can install Red Hat 6.1, 6.2,

6.3 images and install them all with the Red Hat image type.

Custom Installation

OS script

Refers to ASM maintained kickstart scripts or unattend.xml customer specific

scripts to be used as a part of unattend OS install.