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Configuring IaaS 1
Preparation is required by IaaS administrators, tenant administrators, and fabric administrators to bring
resources under vRealize Automation management, allocate resources to users, prepare for provisioning
machines, and create machine blueprints.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Configuring IaaS for Cloud Checklist
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Custom Properties in Machine Provisioning, Blueprints, and Build Profiles
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Bringing Resources Under vRealize Automation Management
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Configure Machine Prefixes
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Create a Business Group
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Managing Key Pairs
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Cloud Reservations
Configuring IaaS for Cloud Checklist
IaaS administrators, fabric administrators, tenant administrators, and business group managers perform
required and optional configurations to fully implement and customize vRealize Automation.
The Configuring IaaS Checklist provides a high-level overview of the sequence of steps required to have
a fully functioning IaaS instance.
Table 1‑1. Configuring IaaS checklist
Task Required Role
Store credentials and create endpoints to bring resources under vRealize Automation
management.
See Bringing Resources Under vRealize Automation Management.
IaaS administrator
Configure the machine prefixes used to create names for machines provisioned through
vRealize Automation.
See Configure Machine Prefixes.
Fabric administrator
Create at least one business group of users who need to request machines.
See Create a Business Group.
Tenant administrator
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