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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
Entitlements control which operations specific users can access. Blueprint actions control which machine
operations can be performed on machines provisioned from a blueprint.
Note The options that appear on the Actions tab depend on your platform and any customizations made
in your vRealize Automation instance.
Prerequisites
Add vApp Component Blueprint Custom Properties.
Procedure
1 Click the Actions tab.
2 (Optional) Select the check boxes for each machine option to enable for machines provisioned from
this blueprint.
3 Click OK.
Your blueprint is saved in draft state.
What to do next
Publish the blueprint to create a catalog item. See Publish a vApp Blueprint.
Creating a vApp (vCloud) Blueprint
Machine blueprints determine a machine's attributes, the manner in which it is provisioned, and its policy
and management settings. You can use the vApp (vCloud) blueprint to associate a vApp Component
(vCloud) blueprint with each virtual machine in the vApp template. A vApp blueprint contains references
to vApp component blueprints.
Before you can create a vApp blueprint, vApp component blueprints must exist for the component
machines that are to be included in the vApp.
A member of the business group associated with a vApp blueprint can use the blueprint to provision a
vApp and its virtual machines in a vCloud Air or vCloud Director organization. The provisioning process
also produces a vApp machine and its component machines in vRealize Automation.
The vApp component blueprints must be available to the same business group as the vApp blueprint.
The vApp blueprint can specify a vApp template to be used to create the vApp and provision its
component machines.
The vApp and its component machines use a machine prefix and the next available sequence of
numbers, for example CA04, CA05, and CA06.
Administrators can specify a vApp lease duration. The lease specified in vRealize Automation overrides
the lease specified in vCloud Director. Every 45 minutes, by default, a workflow checks if it needs to
synchronize your vCloud Director or vCloud Air lease length.
If no lease length is specified in vRealize Automation, the lease length is interpreted as having been set
to never expire. This lease length value is also evaluated by the synchronization workflow checker.
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