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Table 3‑14. Custom Properties V Table (Continued)
Property Description
VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision
Determines whether thin provisioning is used on
ESX compute resources using local or iSCSI storage.
Set to True to use thin provisioning. Set to False to
use standard provisioning. This property is for
virtual provisioning.
VirtualMachine.Admin.CustomizeGuestOSDelay
Species the time to wait after customization is
complete and before starting the guest operating
system customization. The value must be in
HH:MM:SS format. If the value is not set, the default
value is one minute (00:01:00). If you choose not to
include this custom property, provisioning can fail if
the virtual machine reboots before guest agent work
items are completed, causing provisioning to fail.
VirtualMachine.Admin.NetworkInterfaceType
Indicates the network adapter type that is supported
and emulated by the guest operating system. Use to
create a new virtual machine and assign a specic
adapter type for a template cloning operation. Use to
modify the network seings of a newly provisioned
virtual machine. The following options are available:
n
E1000 (default)
n
VirtIO
n
RTL8139
n
RTL8139 VirtIO
VirtualMachine.Admin.Name
Species the generated machine name for vSphere,
for example CodyVM01. When creating custom
workows or plug-ins for customizing a virtual
machine name, set this property to match the name
of the virtual machine. This is an internal input
property for the agent to name the virtual machine.
N This property is for vSphere only.
The value specied in the blueprint has no eect on
this property. This property is not intended to be
used to prompt the user. Use the HostName property
to prompt the user. If the property is set at runtime,
the container name that is created in the hypervisor
might not match the item record name.
VirtualMachine.Admin.UUID
Species the UUID of the machine. The guest agent
records the value when the machine is created. The
value becomes read-only. The value in the blueprint
or property group has no eect on this property.
VirtualMachine.Admin.AgentID
Species the UUID of the guest agent. The guest
agent recorsd the value when the machine is created.
The value becomes read-only. The value in the
blueprint or property group has no eect on this
property.
VirtualMachine.Admin.Owner
Species the user name of the machine owner.
VirtualMachine.Admin.Approver
Species the user name of the group manager who
approved the machine request.
VirtualMachine.Admin.Description
Species the description of the machine as entered or
modied by its owner or an administrator.
VirtualMachine.Admin.EncryptPasswords
If set to True, species that the administrator
passwords are encrypted.
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