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Table 3‑4. Properties Tab Settings (Continued)
Tab Setting Description
Overridable You can specify that the property value can be
overridden by the next or subsequent person
who uses the property. Typically, this is
another architect, but if you select Show in
request, your business users are able to see
and edit property values when they request
catalog items.
Show in request If you want to display the property name and
value to your end users, you can select to
display the property on the request form when
requesting machine provisioning. You must
also select overridable if you want users to
provide a value.
vSphere Machine Component Settings
Understand the settings and options that you can configure 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 settings in the design canvas.
General Tab
Configure general settings for a vSphere machine component.
Table 3‑5. General Tab Settings
Setting Description
ID Enter a name for your machine component, or accept the default.
Description Summarize your machine component for the benefit 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 configure the locations
feature to allow users to select a particular data center location at which to
provision a requested machine. To fully configure this option, a system
administrator adds data center location information to a locations file 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 different service levels, or to make a specific
type of resource easily available for a particular purpose. If your fabric
administrator did not configure reservation policies, you do not see any
available options in this drop-down menu.
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