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Chapter 3 Managing and Configuring Stage Manager
 NumberofvirtualCPUs.
Thedatastoreforvirtualmachinesmustbeconnectedtoahostthatprovides
therequiredSMPtechnologyfortheguestoperatingsystem.Ifyouchoosea
CPUnumbernotcurrentlycompatiblewiththeCPUofthehost,youcannot
deploythevirtualmachineuntilyouattacha
hostwiththeappropriateSMP
support.IfyouhavesomebutnotallhoststhatprovidetherequiredSMP
technology,Stage Managerlimitsthenumberofhostsonwhichthetemplate
canbedeployed.
 Disktype.
 Disksizeingigabytes.
 Memoryinmegabytes.
 Timetoundeploythetemplate.
Stage Managerallowsyoutorenewaleaseatalatertime.
 Timetodeletethetemplateormarkthetemplatefordeletion.
4ClickOK.
TheVirtualMachineTemplatespageliststhenewtemplatewithanUndeployed
andUnpublishedstatus.
Deploying Templates
Deployatemplatetoregisteritwitharesourcepoolandprovidesaccessto
Stage Manageroperationsatthevirtualmachineconsolelevel.
Thisoperationinvolvesspecifyingadeploymentlease.See“ReviewingtheResource
CleanupTab”onpage 103.
To deploy a template with default preferences
1Intheleftpane,clickVMTemplates.
2Ifthetemplateispublished(availablefor
configurationuse),movethepointerover
thetemplatenameandchooseUnpublishfromthemenu.
3MovethepointeroverthetemplatenameandchooseDeploywithdefaultsfrom
themenu.
Stage Managerdeploysthetemplatewithdeploymentoptionsfromyouruser
preferencesandthevirtualmachineconsoleiconsforthatconfigurationbecome
active.
See“SettingUserPreferences”onpage 25.