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Create one or more machine blueprints, as described in “Create Templates and Blueprints for Adding
Machines to Desktop Pools,” on page 60.
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If you plan to make action buttons available on the Items tab so that delegated administrators can use
action buttons to perform pool management tasks, perform the tasks described in Chapter 5, “Making
Desktop and Pool Actions Available in vRealize Automation,” on page 49.
Procedure
1 Log in to vRealize Automation as a tenant administrator.
2 Add an entitlement for the delegated administrator.
a On the Administration tab, go to Catalog Management > Entitlements and click the item in the list
for delegated administrators.
b Add the machine blueprint service to the Entitled Services list.
c If the delegated administrator will be allowed to delete machines from specific pools, add a
Destroy action to the Entitled Actions list. For Type, select Virtual Machine.
d When you are finished adding these entitlements, click Update.
3 Log in to Orchestrator as an administrator and run the Configure vCAC Blueprint to Provision Machine
to Pool workflow, located in the Horizon/Configuration folder.
You can select the blueprint from the Blueprints folder of the IaaS host of the vCAC host.
Some custom properties are added to the blueprint. You can go to Infrastructure > Blueprints >
Blueprints, edit the blueprint, and see the custom properties on the Properties tab. If the blueprint is for
a pool of unmanaged machines, you see a Credential Name property. Do not edit the
ExternalWFStubs.MachineProvisioned and ExternalWFStubs.UnprovisionMachine properties. These
properties indicate the IDs of the workflows.
4 To troubleshoot an unsuccessful workflow run, in Orchestrator, you can navigate to Horizon >
CoreModules > Business Logic and select the appropriate workflow to view its logs.
Action Workflow Name
Add managed machines
add-vcac-machine-to-managed-pool
Add unmanaged machines
add-vcac-machine-to-unmanaged-pool
Delete managed machine
remove--vcac-machine-to-managed-pool
Delete unmanaged machine
remove-vcac-machine-to-unmanaged-pool
The blueprint now appears on the Catalog tab for the delegated administrator. If the IAAS administrator
has configured the blueprint so that delegated administrators can change the number of CPUs, amount of
memory, and gigabytes of storage space for the machine, the delegated administrator can make these
changes on the Request Information tab when submitting the request. The delegated administrator can also
change the number of machines to provision. The delegated administrator can monitor the progress of
machine creation by clicking the Requests tab.
After the request succeeds, the delegated administrator can go to the Items tab, click Machines in the left
panel, and see the machine or machines listed on the right panel. The delegated administrator can click a
machine name to access the actions that are available, such as Destroy. The pod and pool name are available
on the Properties tab.
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