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3 Build profile, specified on a vApp blueprint
4 vApp blueprint
5 Business group
6 Compute resources
7 Reservations
8 Endpoint
9 Runtime specified on a vApp
10 Runtime specified on a component machine
Any runtime property takes higher precedence and overrides a property from any source. A custom
property is marked as runtime if any of the following conditions exist.
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The property is marked as Prompt User, which specifies that the user must supply a value for it when
requesting a machine. This condition requires that the machine requestor customize individual
characteristics of each machine, or gives them the option of doing so when a default value is provided
for the required property.
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A business group manager is requesting a machine and the property appears in the custom
properties list on the Properties tab of the Confirm Machine Request page.
You generally specify the characteristics of the machine to be provisioned by adding properties to
blueprints and build profiles. Use custom properties in reservations and business groups carefully
because they can be applied to many machines. Their use is typically limited to purposes related to their
sources, such as resource management, line of business accounting, and so on.
Each blueprint can optionally incorporate one build profile and thereby inherit the custom properties in
that profile. Build profiles are especially useful for applying common sets of properties for specific
purposes to a wide range of blueprints. For example, your site might want to add a second disk to,
customize Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol behavior for, and enable Active Directory cleanup for a
wide variety of machines. If a build profile with the necessary properties is created, it can be incorporated
into all of your blueprints, local or global.
When creating and managing build profiles, a fabric administrator can load a number of predefined
property sets to add several related properties all at once, instead of one by one.
Bringing Resources Under vRealize Automation Management
To allow vRealize Automation to manage your infrastructure, IaaS administrators create endpoints, store
administrator-level user credentials for those endpoints, and add compute resources to a fabric group.
The procedure for creating endpoints differs depending on your environment.
IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
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