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Setting Up Application
Provisioning for the Application
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Application Services uses the virtual cloud infrastructure features in vRealize Automation to deploy
applications to the vSphere environment.
As part of the setup process, you must create custom vRealize Automation blueprints. A
vRealize Automation blueprint includes specifications for provisioning virtual, cloud, or physical machines,
that determine the machine attributes, how they are provisioned, and their policy and management
settings. When you request a machine, you must select the blueprint from which the machine is created.
vRealize Automation applies a set of custom properties defined in the build profile or in the blueprint to
that requested machine. From the vRealize Automation interface, you can access the clone or linked
clone blueprints and specify properties to override several properties in the vCenter Server template.
Important Application Services supports only the vRealize Automation virtual blueprint provisioning to
vSphere.
In Application Services, you must register a cloud provider and template. When you register a cloud
provider, you map a specific vRealize Automation blueprint in a business group to a cloud template in
Application Services. This registration process makes this vRealize Automation blueprint available in the
Application Services library. To deploy an application using this cloud template, you must map a cloud
template to a logical template. You must then create a deployment environment and map this deployment
environment to an applicable vRealize Automation reservation policy.
Familiarize yourself with the key concepts that relate to setting up and configuring a cloud environment for
application provisioning. See Key Concepts.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Virtual Machine Requirements for Creating vRealize Automation Custom Templates
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Creating Virtual Machine Templates in vRealize Automation
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Updating Existing Virtual Machine Templates in vRealize Automation
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Register the vRealize Automation Cloud Provider and Template
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Create a vRealize Automation Deployment Environment
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