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Table 4‑24. General Tab Settings (Continued)
Setting Description
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 an OpenStack machine component.
Table 4‑25. Build Information Tab
Setting Description
Blueprint type For record-keeping and licensing purposes, select whether
machines provisioned from this blueprint are classied as
Desktop or Server.
Provisioning  The following provisioning workows are available for an
OpenStack machine component:
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Provision a machine by booting from an ISO image,
using a kickstart or autoYaSt conguration le and a
Linux distribution image to install the operating
system on the machine.
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Create a machine by starting from either a virtual
machine instance or cloud-based image.
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Provision a machine by booting into a WinPE
environment and installing an operating system using
a Windows Imaging File Format (WIM) image of an
existing Windows reference machine.
When using a WIM provisioning workow in a
blueprint, specify a storage value that accounts for the
size of each disk to be used on the machine. Use the
total value of all disks as the minimum storage value
for the machine component. Also specify a size for each
disk that is large enough to accommodate the
operating system.
Configuring vRealize Automation
264 VMware, Inc.