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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
10 (Optional) Add the VirtualMachine.Admin.NameCompletion custom property.
Specifies the domain name to include in the fully qualified domain name of the machine that the RDP
or SSH files generate for the user interface options Connect Using RDP or Connect Using SSH
option. For example, set the value to myCompany.com to generate the fully qualified domain name
my-machine-name.myCompany.com in the RDP or SSH file.
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Click the Save icon ( ).
12 Click the Actions tab.
13 Select the Connect using RDP or SSH check box to allow users to connect to their machine by
using an RDP or SSH connection.
14 Click OK.
All users who are entitled to connect using SSH see the Connect Using SSH option for all machines they
request from your blueprint. For information about entitlements, see Tenant Administration.
Cloning an Identical Copy from a vApp Template
You can clone an identical copy of a vApp template with the vCloud.Template.MakeIdenticalCopy
custom property.
When set to True, the VCloud.Template.MakeIdenticalCopy custom property instructs
vRealize Automation to ignore the customization specified in the vApp blueprint selected for provisioning
and its vApp component blueprints. In this example, only the vApp template, and not the vApp and vApp
component blueprints, are used to provision the vApp and its virtual machines. The default setting for the
property is False.
A vApp and its component machines are provisioned as an identical copy of the vApp template. The only
changes from the vApp template are the names of the cloned vApp and its virtual machines, which are
generated from the machine prefix. See Custom Properties for vApp Blueprints.
To use the VCloud.Template.MakeIdenticalCopy property, a tenant administrator or business group
manager enters the custom property on the Properties page of the vApp blueprint or as part of a build
profile. The property can also reside in a business group that includes the selected vApp blueprint,
although using this approach affects all vApp blueprints in the business group.
vApps provisioned as identical copies can use networks and storage profiles that are not available in the
vRealize Automation reservation. If you clone a vApp template and use the identical copy option, the
machine is successfully provisioned. The network and storage settings are used without their allocation
being accounted for in a reservation. To avoid having unaccounted reservation allocations, verify that the
storage profile or network specified in the template is available in the reservation.
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