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Procedure
1 Log in to vRealize Automation as a tenant administrator and create one or more machine blueprints
that have a source type of iaas-service.
IMPORTANT When specifying the machine name in the blueprint, use a naming scheme that will indicate
to any View administrators that the machine was created in vRealize Automation. Machines that are
created in vRealize Automation should be deleted only from within vRealize Automation. The naming
scheme lets the View administrator know that the machine should not be deleted from the View
Administrator UI. If the machine is deleted from within View Administrator, the machine status in
vRealize Automation appears as Missing.
2 When you create the virtual machine template, install the latest version of VMware Tools and View
Agent in the guest operating system.
Instructions for installing VMware Tools appear in the vSphere Client help. Instructions for installing
View Agent are provided in the Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View document, available
from the documentation page at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html.
3 When you create the virtual machine template, add the machine to the domain.
4 If you are creating a blueprint for an unmanaged machine, verify that the blueprint contains a
customization specification that configures the virtual machine so that it has a unique host name.
Go to the Build Information tab of the blueprint properties, and verify that the Customization spec
text box specifies which customization spec to use.
If the provided customization spec is not set up to appropriately, the machine might remain in the
status of Customizing for over an hour before failing.
5 Publish the machine blueprint.
6 Create a service for the blueprint by going to Administration > Catalog Management > Services and
completing the wizard.
For example, you can create a specific service for machine blueprints rather than using the service that
you created for service blueprints.
What to do next
Add the appropriate entitlement and run the appropriate workflow. See “Use Machine Blueprints to Create
and Add Desktops to Pools,” on page 61 and “Configure a Machine Blueprint Service for Advanced
Desktop Allocation,” on page 63.
Use Machine Blueprints to Create and Add Desktops to Pools
Administrators can run the Configure vCAC Blueprint to Provision Machine to Pool workflow to create
managed or unmanaged machines in vRealize Automation and add them to a specific manual desktop pool.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have administrator credentials for the Orchestrator server. The account must be a
member of the vRealize Orchestrator Admin group configured to authenticate through vCenter Single
Sign-On.
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Perform the appropriate tasks from the topic “Exposing Horizon vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In
Workflows in vRealize Automation,” on page 41. These tasks include creating business groups and
services for delegated administrators and end users, creating entitlements for the services, configuring
catalog items, and binding certain fields to specific values.
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Run the Orchestrator workflows described in “Prerequisites for Creating Machines in vRealize
Automation,” on page 59.
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