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Table Of Contents
- IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms
- Contents
- IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms
- Configuring IaaS
- Configuring IaaS Checklist
- Custom Properties in Machine Provisioning, Blueprints, and Build Profiles
- Bringing Resources Under vRealize Automation Management
- Choosing an Endpoint Scenario
- Store User Credentials for Endpoints
- Create a vSphere Endpoint
- Create a vSphere Endpoint with Networking Integration
- Create a NetApp ONTAP Endpoint
- Create a KVM (RHEV) Endpoint
- Create a Standalone Hyper-V Endpoint
- Create an SCVMM Endpoint
- Create a Xen Pool Endpoint
- Create a XenServer Endpoint
- Preparing an Endpoint CSV File for Import
- Import a List of Endpoints
- Create a Fabric Group
- Configure Machine Prefixes
- Create a Business Group
- Virtual Reservations
- Optional Configurations
- Build Profiles and Property Sets
- Reservation Policies
- Storage Reservation Policies
- Static IP Address Assignment
- Cost Profiles
- Enabling Users to Select Datacenter Locations
- Active Directory Cleanup Plugin
- Enabling Remote Desktop Connections
- Enabling Connections to Machines Using SSH
- Preparing for Provisioning
- Space-Efficient Storage for Virtual Provisioning
- Preparing Your SCVMM Environment
- Enabling Visual Basic Scripts in Provisioning
- Choosing a Provisioning Scenario
- Checklist for Virtual Provisioning by Cloning Preparation
- Choosing Your Linux Kickstart Provisioning Preparation Method
- Preparing for SCCM Provisioning
- Preparing for WIM Provisioning
- Creating Blueprints
- Space-Efficient Storage for Virtual Provisioning
- Choosing a Blueprint Scenario
- Create a Blueprint for the Basic Workflow
- Create a Blueprint for Cloning
- Create a Linked Clone Blueprint
- Create a Blueprint for Net App FlexClone Provisioning
- Create a Blueprint for WIM Provisioning
- Create a Blueprint for Linux Kickstart Provisioning
- Create a Blueprint for SCCM Provisioning
- Troubleshooting Blueprints for Clone and Linked Clone
- Publish a Blueprint
- Configuring Advanced Blueprint Settings
- Assigning Datastores to Machine Volumes
- Choosing a Storage Scenario
- Add a Datastore to a Create, Clone, or FlexClone Blueprint
- Add a Datastore to a Linked Clone Blueprint
- Add a Storage Reservation Policy to a Create, Clone, or FlexClone Blueprint
- Add a Storage Reservation Policy to a Linked Clone Blueprint
- Allow Alternative Datastores at Provisioning Time
- Reservation Policies
- Configuring Network Settings
- Enable Users to Select Datacenter Locations
- Allow Requesters to Specify Machine Host Name
- Enabling Visual Basic Scripts in Provisioning
- Add Active Directory Cleanup to a Blueprint
- Enable Machine Users to Create Snapshots
- RDP Connections
- Enable Connections Using SSH
- Assigning Datastores to Machine Volumes
- Infrastructure Organizer
- Managing Infrastructure
- Monitoring Workflows and Viewing Logs
- Appendix A: Machine Life Cycle and Workflow States
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 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 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.
Custom properties in reservations and business groups may be applied to many machines so they should
be used carefully. Their use is typically limited to purposes related to their sources, such as resource
management, line of business accounting, and so on. Specifying the characteristics of the machine to be
provisioned is generally done by adding properties to blueprints and build profiles.
Each blueprint of any type can optionally incorporate one or more build profiles and thereby inherit the
custom properties in those profiles. 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.
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