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Table 4‑1. Choosing Your Import and Export Tool
Tool More information
vRealize CloudClient See the VMware Developer site at
hps://developercenter.vmware.com/tool/cloudclient.
vRealize Automation REST API See the Programming Guide in the vRealize Automation
Information Center at
hps://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcac-pubs.html.
N When exporting and importing blueprints programmatically across vRealize Automation
deployments, for example from a test to a production environment or from one organization to another, it is
important to recognize that clone template data is included in the package. When you import the blueprint
package, default seings are populated based on information in the package. For example, if you export and
then import a blueprint that was created using a clone-style workow, and the template from which that
clone data was derived does not exist in an endpoint in the vRealize Automation deployment in which you
import the blueprint, some imported blueprint seings are not applicable for that deployment.
Scenario: Importing the Dukes Bank for vSphere Sample Application and
Configuring for Your Environment
As an IT professional evaluating or learning vRealize Automation, you want to import a robust sample
application into your vRealize Automation instance so you can quickly explore the available functionality
and determine how you might build vRealize Automation blueprints that suit the needs of your
organization.
Prerequisites
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Prepare a CentOS 6.x Linux reference machine, convert it to a template, and create a customization
specication. See “Scenario: Prepare for Importing the Dukes Bank for vSphere Sample Application
Blueprint,” on page 70.
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Create an external network prole to provide a gateway and a range of IP addresses. See “Create an
External Network Prole by Using An External IPAM Provider,” on page 184.
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Map your external network prole to your vSphere reservation. See “Create a Reservation for Hyper-V,
KVM, SCVMM, vSphere, or XenServer,” on page 213. The sample application cannot provision
successfully without an external network prole.
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Verify that you have both the infrastructure architect and software architect privileges. Both roles are
required to import the Dukes Bank sample application and to interact with the Dukes Bank blueprints
and software components.
Procedure
1 Scenario: Import the Dukes Bank for vSphere Sample Application on page 241
You download the Dukes Bank for vSphere application from your vRealize Automation appliance.
You import the sample application into your vRealize Automation tenant to view a working sample of
a multi-tiered vRealize Automation blueprint that includes multiple machine components with
networking and software components.
2 Scenario: Congure Dukes Bank vSphere Sample Components for Your Environment on page 242
Using your infrastructure architect privileges, you congure each of the Dukes Bank machine
components to use the customization specication, template, and machine prexes that you created
for your environment.
You have congured the Dukes Bank for vSphere sample application for your environment to use as a
starting point for developing your own blueprints, as a tool to evaluate vRealize Automation, or as a
learning resource to assist you in understanding vRealize Automation functionality and components.
Configuring vRealize Automation
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