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6 Drag the type of machine you want to provision onto the design canvas.
7 Follow the prompts on each of the tabs to congure machine provisioning details.
8 Click Finish.
9 Select your blueprint and click Publish.
You congured and published a machine component as a standalone blueprint. Catalog administrators can
include this machine blueprint in catalog services and entitle users to request this blueprint. Other architects
can reuse this machine blueprint to create more elaborate application blueprints that include Software
components, XaaS blueprints, or additional machine blueprints.
What to do next
You can combine a machine blueprint with Software components, XaaS blueprints, or additional machine
blueprints to create more elaborate application blueprints. See “Assembling Composite Blueprints,” on
page 349.
Machine Blueprint Settings
Understand the seings and options you can congure when you create machine blueprints.
New Blueprint and Blueprint Properties Settings
Understand the seings and options that you can congure in the New Blueprint dialog box. After you
create the blueprint, you can edit these seings on the Blueprint Properties dialog box.
General Tab
Apply seings across your entire blueprint, including all components you intend to add now or later.
Table 4‑3. General Tab Settings
Setting Description
Name Enter a name for your blueprint.
 The identier eld automatically populates based on the name you
entered. You can edit this eld now, but after you save the blueprint
you can never change it. Because identiers are permanent and unique
within your tenant, you can use them to programmatically interact
with blueprints and to create property bindings.
Description Summarize your blueprint for the benet of other architects. This
description also appears to users on the request form.
Archive days You can specify an archival period to temporarily retain deployments
instead of destroying deployments as soon as their lease expires.
Specify 0 (default) to destroy the deployment when its lease expires.
The archival period begins on the day the lease expires. When the
archive period ends, the deployment is destroyed.
Lease days: Minimum and Maximum Enter a minimum and a maximum value to allow users to choose from
a range of lease lengths. When the lease ends, the deployment is either
destroyed or archived.
NSX Settings Tab
If you have congured VMware NSX, and installed the NSX plug-in for vRealize Automation, you can
specify NSX transport zone, Edge and routed gateway reservation policy, and app isolation seings when
you create or edit a blueprint. These seings are available on the NSX  tab on the New Blueprint
and Blueprint Properties pages.
For information about NSX seings, see “New Blueprint and Blueprint Properties Seings with NSX,” on
page 278.
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