7.1

Scenario: Configure Dukes Bank vSphere Sample Components for Your
Environment
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.
This scenario congures the machine components to clone machines from the template you created in the
vSphere Web Client. If you want to create space-ecient copies of a virtual machine based on a snapshot,
the sample application also supports linked clones. Linked clones use a chain of delta disks to track
dierences from a parent machine, are provisioned quickly, reduce storage cost, and are ideal to use when
performance is not a high priority.
Procedure
1 Log in to the vRealize Automation console as an infrastructure architect.
You can congure the Dukes Bank sample application to work in your environment with only the
infrastructure architect role, but if you want to view or edit the sample software components you also
need the software architect role.
2 Select Design > Blueprints.
3 Select the DukesBankApplication blueprint and click the Edit icon.
4 Edit the appserver-node so vRealize Automation can provision this machine component in your
environment.
You congure the blueprint to provision multiple instances of this machine component so you can
verify the load balancer node functionality.
a Click the appserver-node component on the design canvas.
Conguration details appear in the boom panel.
b Select your machine prex from the Machine  drop-down menu.
c Congure your blueprint to provision at least two and up to ten instances of this node by selecting
a minimum of 2 instances and a maximum of 10.
On the request form, users are able to provision at least two and up to ten appserver nodes. If users
are entitled to the scale in and scale out actions, they can scale their deployment to meet changing
needs.
d Click the Build Information tab.
e Select  from the Provisioning  drop-down menu.
f Select your dukes_bank_template from the Clone from dialog.
g Enter your Customspecs_sample in the Customization spec text box.
This eld is case sensitive.
h Click the Machine Resources tab.
i Verify that memory seings are at least 2048 MB.
5 Edit the loadbalancer-node so vRealize Automation can provision this machine component in your
environment.
a Click the loadbalancer-node component on the design canvas.
b Select your machine prex from the Machine  drop-down menu.
c Click the Build Information tab.
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