Users Guide

7. Select desired date and time from the Date and Time drop-down menu.
8. Click Finish.
9. If you have selected Deploy Now option after clicking Finish, you get a message, stating that; Are you sure you wish to
deploy the service? Click Yes to deploy now.
NOTE: If you want to deploy multiple service on many servers. It is recommended to break these up into smaller
group of templates. It is recommended to put 5–10 servers in a single template.
Adding Attachments
You can attach any kind of files to template by using Add Attachment feature. You can attach multiple files.
NOTE: The size limit of attached files is 50 megabytes.
1. Click Add Attachment under Template information tab, in the right pane of Template page. Add Attachment window is
displayed.
2. You can attach any kind of files to template by using Add Attachment feature. You can attach multiple files.
3. Click the browse button. Browse file from local file system, click Open. It redirects you to Templates page. There you can see
the newly added file.
NOTE: This operation may take a time based on their size.
4. To view the file, select the attached file. Right-click on it. A window is displayed. There, from the Open with drop-down menu,
select Notepad. Click
Ok. A window is displayed, there you can view the file.
5. You can delete the file by clicking the delete icon. After you click delete icon, a window is displayed by stating that Are you sure
that you want to delete this attachment? Click Yes to delete the file.
NOTE: If you try to attach a file with the same name of already attached file, you get an error message. You can
attach multiple file with different file name.
Decommissioning services provisioned by ASM
When a service provisioned by ASM is no longer required, it is important to decommission the resources. Therefore, the resources
can be provisioned for future services.
The steps to accomplish this task differ based on the type of resource component provisioned. For hosts provisioned by ASM, the
default behavior when a service is deleted to turn off the host. For server, extra cleanup is required after turning off the server. For
storage provisioned by ASM, the default behavior when a service is deleted to retain the storage volume available to make sure that
no critical data is deleted.
As a best practice, you need to perform the following tasks while decommissioning a service. Make sure to perform these tasks to
avoid issues in provisioning of future services due to conflicts.
Decommissioning Hyper-V-based storage, host, and clusters
To decommission Hyper-V-based storage, host, and clusters:
1. SCVMM clusters should be uninstalled through SCVMM.
2. SCVMM host groups should be deleted if no longer used.
3. Hyper-V hosts should be removed from SCVMM.
4. Hyper-V hosts should be removed from the domain.
5. Storage volumes should be set offline and deleted when the data is no longer used.
6. If necessary, remove ASM provisioned VLANs from the host facing ports of the switch.
7. Remove host entries from DNS server.
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