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Managing Physical Machines 7
You can import or provision a physical machine, connect a managed physical machine to the
management interface of its endpoint, and join a hypervisor-provisioned physical machine to a
vCenter Server cluster.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Physical Machine Provisioning and Management
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Physical Endpoints
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Physical Reservations
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Configure Hardware Details
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Assign a Cost Profile to a Physical Machine
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Provision a Reserved Physical Machine
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Import a Physical Machine
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Connect a Physical Machine to an Endpoint
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Join a Hypervisor to a Cluster
Physical Machine Provisioning and Management
To provision and manage physical machines, vRealize Automation communicates directly with each
system’s management interface to run actions such as OS installation, rebooting, and reprovisioning.
By directly provisioning an operating system on a physical system using the hardware’s management
interface, machine requesters and administrators can standardize, customize, use, track, manage and
decommission physical machines in the same manner as virtual and cloud machines.
You can provision a virtual machine on a single virtualization compute resource and you can provision
cloud machines within a single cloud service account. One physical machine represents one hardware
system. But you provision, use, and manage virtual, cloud, and physical machines in much the same way.
Physical Endpoints
A physical endpoint represents one physical machine or a pool of multiple physical machines. To make a
physical machine available for provisioning, you must create an endpoint to represent it.
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