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Table 1‑44. Custom Properties V Table (Continued)
Property Description
VirtualMachine.Admin.EagerZero
When set to true, specifies that the machine disks are
provisioned using the VMware provisioning format of eager zero.
Thick provision eager zero is a type of thick virtual disk that
supports clustering features such as fault tolerance. Space
required for the virtual disk is allocated at creation time. In
contrast to the flat format, the data remaining on the physical
device is zeroed out when the virtual disk is created. It might take
much longer to create disks in this format than to create other
types of disks.
VirtualMachine.Admin.ForceHost
Specifies the name of the ESX host. The property is only honored
if VirtualMachine.Admin.HostSelectionPolicy is set to
EXACT_MATCH.
Note This property is for vSphere only.
When provisioning against a vSphere cluster, you can use the
VirtualMachine.Admin.ForceHost property to specify the host
on which a machine is to be provisioned. This property is used
only if DRS is not set to automatic for the cluster. If the cluster
has DRS enabled and is set to Automatic, vSphere relocates the
provisioned machine when the machine is restarted.
VirtualMachine.Admin.HostSelectionPolicy
Optionally set to EXACT_MATCH to require the machine to be
placed on the host specified by the
VirtualMachine.Admin.ForceHost property. If the host is
unavailable, the request results in a failure. If a host is not
specified, the next best available host is selected. If set to
EXACT_MATCH, an error occurs if the specified host does not
have enough memory or is in maintenance mode.
Note This property applies to vSphere only.
VirtualMachine.Agent.CopyToDisk
Set to True (default) to copy the guest agent executable file to
%System-Drive%\VRM\Build\Bin on the machine’s disk.
VirtualMachine.Agent.GuiRunOnce
Set to True to include guest agent execution in the SysPrep.inf
run once section. Set to False for the Linux agent to stop the
provisioning workflow.
VirtualMachine.Agent.Reboot
Set to True (default) to specify that the guest agent restarts the
machine following installation of the guest operating system.
VirtualMachine.CDROM.Attach
Set to False to provision the machine without a CD-ROM device.
The default is True.
VirtualMachine.CPU.Count
Specifies the number of CPUs, for example 2, allocated to a
machine. The default is the value specified by the CPU setting on
the blueprint.
Note This custom property value is overridden by the CPU
value on the blueprint when the machine is first provisioned.
VirtualMachine.Customize.WaitComplete
Set to True to prevent the provisioning workflow from sending
work items to the guest agent until all customizations are
complete.
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