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Table Of Contents
- Advanced Service Design
- Contents
- Advanced Service Design
- Updated Information for Advanced Service Design
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Introduction to VMware vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator and Plug-Ins
- Authoring Services with Advanced Service Designer
- Advanced Service Designer Basics
- Creating an Advanced Service Overview
- Create a Custom Resource
- Create a Service Blueprint
- Publish a Service Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action
- Publish a Resource Action
- Assign an Icon to a Resource Action
- Create a Service
- Associate a Catalog Item with a Service
- Create an Approval Policy for Advanced Service Blueprints and Actions
- Entitle a Service, Catalog Items, and Actions to a User or a Group of Users
- Extending Operations on Resources Provisioned by Other Sources
- Importing and Exporting Advanced Service Designer Components
- Form Designer
- Advanced Service Designer Examples and Scenarios
- Create a Service for Creating and Modifying a User
- Create a Test User as a Custom Resource
- Create a Service Blueprint for Creating a User
- Publish the Create a User Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action to Change a User Password
- Publish the Change a Password Resource Action
- Create a Service for Creating a Test User
- Associate the Catalog Item with the Create a Test User Service
- Entitle the Service and the Resource Action to a Consumer
- Create and Publish an Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine
- Create an Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine With vMotion
- Create and Publish an Action to Take a Snapshot
- Create and Publish an Action to Start an Amazon Virtual Machine
- Creating a Data Refresh Service Offering
- Create a Service for Creating and Modifying a User
Prerequisites
Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a service architect.
Procedure
1 Create the Action to Take a Snapshot of a vSphere Virtual Machine
You can create a custom resource action to allow the consumers to take a snapshot of a vSphere
virtual machine after they provision the machine with IaaS.
2 Publish the Action for Taking a Snapshot
To use the Create a snapshot resource action as a post-provisioning operation, you must publish it.
You created and published a vRealize Orchestrator workflow as a resource action. You can navigate to
Administration > Catalog Management > Actions and see the Create a snapshot resource action in
the list of actions. You can assign an icon to the resource action. See Assign an Icon to a Resource
Action.
What to do next
Business group managers and tenant administrators can include the Create a snapshot resource action
in an entitlement. For more information about how to create and publish IaaS blueprints for virtual
platforms, see IaaS Configuration for Virtual Platforms.
Create the Action to Take a Snapshot of a vSphere Virtual Machine
You can create a custom resource action to allow the consumers to take a snapshot of a vSphere virtual
machine after they provision the machine with IaaS.
Procedure
1 Select Advanced Services > Resource Actions.
2
Click Add ( ).
3 Navigate to Orchestrator > Library > vCenter > Virtual Machine management > Snapshot in the
vRealize Orchestrator workflow library and select the Create a snapshot workflow.
4 Click Next.
5 Select IaaS VC VirtualMachine from the Resource type drop-down menu.
6 Select vm from the Input parameter drop-down menu.
7 Click Next.
8 Leave the name of the resource action and the description as they appear on the Details tab.
9 Click Next.
10 Leave the form as is.
11 Click Add.
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