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After you publish your blueprint, other architects can reuse it as a component in new blueprints. No one can
see or request your blueprint from the catalog until you use your tenant administrator privileges to make it
available for request.
Procedure
1 Scenario: Create a Blueprint for Your Rainpole Machine Component on page 269
Using your IaaS architect privileges, create a blueprint and congure the name and description for
your vSphere CentOS machine blueprint. A unique identier is applied to the blueprint, so you can
programmatically interact with blueprints or create property bindings if you need to. You want users
to have some exibility with their blueprint leases, so you congure the blueprint to allow users to
choose their lease duration for up to a month.
2 Scenario: Congure General Details for Your Rainpole Machine Component on page 270
Using your IaaS architect privileges, you drag a vSphere machine component onto the design canvas
and congure the general details for machines provisioned by using your blueprint.
3 Scenario: Specify Build Information for Your Rainpole Machine Component on page 270
Using your IaaS architect privileges, you congure your blueprint to clone machines from the CentOS
template you created in vSphere.
4 Scenario: Congure Machine Resources for Your Rainpole Machines on page 271
Using your IaaS architect privileges, you give users minimum and maximum parameters for memory
and the number of allowed CPU's. This conserves resources, but also accommodates your user's needs.
Scenario: Create a Blueprint for Your Rainpole Machine Component
Using your IaaS architect privileges, create a blueprint and congure the name and description for your
vSphere CentOS machine blueprint. A unique identier is applied to the blueprint, so you can
programmatically interact with blueprints or create property bindings if you need to. You want users to
have some exibility with their blueprint leases, so you congure the blueprint to allow users to choose their
lease duration for up to a month.
Procedure
1 Select Design > Blueprints.
2
Click the New icon ( ).
3 Enter Centos on vSphere in the Name text box.
4 Review the generated unique identier.
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.
The identier eld automatically populates based on the name you entered.
5 Enter Golden Standard CentOS machine configuration in the Description text box.
6 Congure a lease range for users to choose from by entering 1 in the Minimum text box and 30 in the
Maximum text box.
7 Click OK.
What to do next
You drag a vSphere machine component onto the canvas and congure it to clone the CentOS template you
created in vSphere.
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