7.1

vSphere Machine Component Settings
Understand the seings and options that you can congure for a vSphere machine component in the
vRealize Automation blueprint design canvas. vSphere is the only machine component type that can use
NSX network and security component seings in the design canvas.
General Tab
Congure general seings for a vSphere machine component.
Table 4‑5. General Tab Settings
Setting Description
ID Enter a name for your machine component, or accept the default.
Description Summarize your machine component for the benet of other
architects.
Display location on request In a cloud environment, such as vCloud Air, this allows users to select
a region for their provisioned machines.
For a virtual environment, such as vSphere, you can congure the
locations feature to allow users to select a particular data center
location at which to provision a requested machine. To fully congure
this option, a system administrator adds data center location
information to a locations le and a fabric administrator edits a
compute resource to associate it with a location.
Reservation policy Apply a reservation policy to a blueprint to restrict the machines
provisioned from that blueprint to a subset of available reservations.
Fabric administrators create reservation policies to provide an optional
and helpful means of controlling how reservation requests are
processed, for example to collect resources into groups for dierent
service levels, or to make a specic type of resource easily available for
a particular purpose. If your fabric administrator did not congure
reservation policies, you do not see any available options in this drop-
down menu.
Machine  Machine prexes are created by fabric administrators and are used to
create the names of provisioned machines. If you select Use group
default, machines provisioned from your blueprint are named
according to the machine prex congured as the default for the user's
business group. If no machine prex is congured, one is generated
for you based on the name of the business group.
If your fabric administrator congures other machine prexes for you
to select, you can apply one prex to all machines provisioned from
your blueprint, no maer who the requestor is.
Instances: Minimum and Maximum Congure the maximum and minimum number of instances users can
request for a deployment or for a scale in or scale out action. If you do
not want to give users a choice, entering the same value in the
Minimum and Maximum elds congures exactly how many
instances to provision and disables scale actions against this machine
component.
XaaS components are not scalable and are not updated during a scale
operation. If you are using XaaS components in your blueprint, you
could create a resource action for users to run after a scale operation,
which could either scale or update your XaaS components as required.
Alternatively, you could disable scale by conguring exactly the
number of instances you want to allow for each machine component.
Build Information Tab
Congure build information seings for a vSphere machine component.
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