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Using Custom Properties 1
You can use custom properties to add new attributes or override default attributes.
A tenant administrator or business group manager can include custom properties when they create or edit
blueprints. They can also include a build profile, which contains one or more custom properties. The
properties are retrieved when a machine is provisioned by using the blueprint. A fabric administrator can
also specify custom properties when they create or edit a reservation.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Custom Property Uses
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Specifying Custom Properties
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Custom Property Types
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Creating Custom Properties for Application Services
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Build Profiles and Property Sets
Custom Property Uses
You use custom properties to control aspects of the machines that users can provision.
Some properties are determined by standard settings that you must specify for all machines. For
example, memory and disk size values are required for all blueprints. You can specify additional
properties individually or in build profiles in blueprints and in reservations. Use custom properties to add
values or override existing or default values for the following information.
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Machine operating system
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Virtualization platform
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Build settings such as disk size
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Integration with an external system
When you add a property to a blueprint or a build profile, you can mark it as a required property. When a
property is specified as required, the user must provide a value for that property when they request a
machine, such as in the following examples.
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Require information about multiple disks sharing the machine’s allocated storage.
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Require information about users or groups to be added to a local group on the machine.
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