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Set Approval Requirements
Virtual machines are decommissioned on the date selected by the requester when requesting the machine.
LCM notifies the owner of the virtual machine five days before the decommissioning date with the option to
request an extension. You can specify whether approval is required when virtual machines are requested,
extended, or modified.
Procedure
1 Log in to LCM as an administrator.
2 Click the Configuration view.
3 Click Edit Approval Modes.
4 Under Creation, Extension, and Customization changes, select whether approval is required.
You can change these values later.
5 Click Submit.
If you enable the two approvals under Customization changes, an LCM Approver and an LCM IT Staff user
must approve each request for customization changes.
Configure Archiving Settings
Virtual machines can be archived instead of deleted when they are decommissioned.
Procedure
1 Log in to LCM as an administrator.
2 Click the Configuration view.
3 Click Edit Archiving.
4 Under Archive Configuration, choose whether to archive by default.
5 Under Archive folder, in Destination Datastores, select a datastore or an array of datastores to store the
archive.
The datastore must be accessible from the ESX host running the virtual machine to be archived. The archive
is placed in the first available datastore from the array. If no datastore has sufficient space, the archive
process fails.
6 Click Submit.
Change Authorization Groups
You can modify the types of changes that each role can make.
For information about role-to-task mapping, see “User Roles and Permitted Tasks,” on page 66.
CAUTION Changing authorization groups can be a risk for existing users. Existing users might be unable to
access their virtual machine requests as a result of such changes.
Procedure
1 Log in to LCM as an administrator.
2 Click the Configuration view.
3 Click Edit Authorization Groups.
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