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Table Of Contents
- IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
- Contents
- IaaS Configuration for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
- Updated Information
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Provisioning with vCloud Air or vCloud Director vApps
- Configuring IaaS for vApps
- Configuring IaaS for vCloud Air or vCloud Director Checklist
- Using Custom Properties in vApp Machine Provisioning, Blueprints, and Build Profiles
- Bringing Resources Under vRealize Automation Management
- Configure Machine Prefixes
- Create a Business Group for vCloud Provisioning
- vCloud Reservations
- Optional Configurations
- Preparing for vApp Provisioning
- Creating vApp and vApp Component Blueprints
- Configuring Advanced Blueprint Settings
- Monitoring Workflows and Viewing Logs
- Machine Life Cycle and Workflow States for vCloud Air or vCloud Director vApps
Tenant administrators and business group managers can now select your build profile and include it in
their blueprints.
Configuring Reservation Policies
When a user requests a machine, it can be provisioned on any reservation of the appropriate type that
has sufficient capacity for the machine. You can apply a reservation policy to a blueprint to restrict the
machines provisioned from that blueprint to a subset of available reservations.
Reservation policies provide an optional and helpful means of controlling how reservation requests are
processed. A reservation policy is often used to collect resources into groups for different service levels,
or to make a specific type of resource easily available for a particular purpose. The following scenarios
provide a few examples of possible uses for reservation policies:
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To ensure that machines provisioned from a virtual blueprint are placed on reservations with storage
devices that support NetApp FlexClone
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To restrict provisioning of cloud machines to a specific region containing a machine image that is
required for a specific blueprint
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To restrict provisioning of Cisco UCS physical machines to reservations on endpoints on which the
selected service profile template and boot policy are available
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As an additional means of using a Pay As You Go allocation model for vApps
You can add multiple reservations to a reservation policy, but a reservation can belong to only one policy.
You can assign a single reservation policy to more than one blueprint. A blueprint can have only one
reservation policy.
A reservation policy can include reservations of different types, but only reservations that match the
blueprint type are considered when selecting a reservation for a particular request. For more information
about how reservations are selected for provisioning a machine, see IaaS Configuration for Cloud
Platforms, IaaS Configuration for Physical Machines, or IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms.
Configure a Reservation Policy
Fabric administrators create reservation policies to collect resources into groups for different service
levels, or to make a specific type of resource easily available for a particular purpose. After you create the
reservation policy, you then must populate it with reservations before tenant administrators and business
group managers can use the policy effectively in a blueprint.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a fabric administrator.
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Create at least one reservation.
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