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Beforeuserscanrequestvirtualmachines,theLCMAdministratormustconfiguretheinfrastructureand
criteria.
Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
“ConfiguringtheInfrastructureforRequestedVirtualMachines”onpage 29
“ConfigureCriteriaforRequestedVirtualMachines”onpage 34
Configuring the Infrastructure for Requested Virtual Machines
Tosetuptheinfrastructureforarequestedvirtualmachine,youdefinethefollowingelements:
ResourcePoolYoucanuseanexistingresourcepoolinvCenterorcreateanewone.
DatastoreYoucanchoosewhichdatastoretouse.Thedatastoremustexist.
VirtualMachineFolderYoucancategorizeitemsinvCenterfolders,basedondifferentorganizations.
NetworkYoucanassociateanewnetworkinstancewithvCenteroryourESXhost.
TemplateProfileYoucancreateatemplateprofileforvirtualmachines.Anexampleofatemplate
profileisavirtualmachinerunningWindowsXP.
DomainYoucanspecifythedomainorworkgroupthattherequestedvirtualmachinecanjoin.
CustomizationTemplateYoucancreateacustomizationtemplatethatdefinesthecomputerresources
availabletothevirtualmachine.LCMusesthetemplatetoapplythecorrectlevelsoftheresources.
Ifmultipleinfrastructureelementsaremappedtothesamecriterion,LCMdoesnotknowwhichelementto
useandnotifies
theITStaffthatanelementmustbeselectedonthePlacementview.
Automatic Placement
Whenavirtualmachinerequestisapproved,thesystemtriestoplacethevirtualmachineautomatically.
If automaticplacementispossible,thevirtualmachineiscreatedandthestateoftherequestchangesto
Available.Iftheautomaticplacementfails,thestateoftherequestchangestoWaitingforPlacement,and
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userwiththeLCMITStaffrolemustplacethevirtualmachinemanually.Duringautomaticplacement,oneof
thefollowingeventscanoccur:
Ifonepathisfound,thevirtualmachineisplaced.
Ifanexceptionoccurs,theautomaticplacementfails.Informationabouttheexceptionisdisplayed.
The LCMITStaffusercanusetheinformationtomanuallyplacethevirtualmachineandoverwritethe
initialcriteria.
Ifaconflictoccurs,forexample,ifseveralsolutionsarefound,orifthedatastoreisfull,automatic
placementfails.Informationabouttheconflictandsolutionisdisplayed.TheLCMITStaffusercanenter
thenewplacementandoverwritetheinitialcriteria.
Setting Up the Virtual Machine
Environment
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