User`s guide

VMware Stage Manager User’s Guide
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4Specifywhethertouseanetworkarchitecturemodefordeployingconfigurations:
 AllowTrafficInandOut–Virtualmachinescancommunicatewithmachines
outsidethefenceandmachinesoutsidethefencecancommunicatewith
virtualmachinesinthefencedconfiguration.
 AllowTrafficOut–Virtualmachinesinafencedconfigurationcaninitiate
communicationtomachinesoutsidethefence,andcanreceivemessageson
thesameconnection.Machinesoutsidethefencecannotinitiate
communicationtovirtualmachinesinthefencedconfiguration.
 BlockTrafficInandOut–Networktrafficdoesnottravelacrossthefence.
Virtualmachinesinafencedconfigurationcannotcommunicatewith
machinesoutsideofthefence,andmachinesoutsidethefencecannot
communicatewithvirtualmachinesinthefencedconfiguration.
5Tobootvirtualmachinesinthesequencespecifiedduring
thecreationofthe
configuration,selecttheUseServerBootSequencecheckbox.
6 DeselectthePowerOnMachinesAfterDeploymentcheckboxtoprevent
Stage Managerfrompoweringonvirtualmachinesimmediatelyafterdeployment.
Usethisoptionwhenyouneedtomanuallybringupvirtualmachines.For
example,youmightneedtoensure
adatabase,applicationandWebserverare
workingindividuallyratherthanallatonce.
7Specifyatimetoundeploytheconfiguration.
Stage Managerallowsyoutorenewaleaseatalatertime.
8ClickOK.
Deploying Configurations on High Availability Clusters
IfyoudeployaconfigurationonaclusterwithVMwareHA,StageManagerusesthe
samecalculationthatVirtualCenterhasforassessingfreeslotsavailableinthecluster.
Afterassessingthatthehostshaveenoughresources,StageManagerpowersonthe
virtualmachines.Ifthehostsdonotmeetcompatibilityrequirements,
thedeploy
operationfailsandStageManagerdisplaysamessage.
Ifyouexperienceafailure,youneedtoreconfiguretheresources.Forinformation
aboutresourcemanagement,seetheResourceManagementGuidefor
VMware Infrastructure3.
ThecalculationthatVirtualCenterandStageManagerusesisconservative.Ifnecessary,
disableitinVirtualCenterto
stopthiscalculationinStageManager.