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Task Required Role
Create at least one reservation to allocate resources to a business group.
See Choosing a Reservation Scenario.
Fabric administrator
Configure optional policies and settings.
See Chapter 2 Optional Configurations.
Fabric administrator
Depending on your intended method of provisioning, preparation outside of
vRealize Automation might be required before you can start creating machine blueprints. For
example, you might need to create the machine images required for your blueprints.
See Choosing a Cloud Provisioning Scenario.
Outside of vRealize Automation
Create and publish machine blueprints.
See Choosing a Blueprint Scenario.
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Tenant administrator
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Business group manager
Before users can request machines, a tenant administrator must configure the service catalog. See
Tenant Administration.
Custom Properties in Machine Provisioning, Blueprints,
and Build Profiles
Custom properties are name-value pairs used to specify attributes of a machine or to override default
specifications.
Different custom properties are used for different provisioning methods, types of machines, and machine
options. Custom properties can be used as described in the following examples:
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Specify a particular type of guest OS
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Enable WIM-based provisioning, in which a Windows Imaging File Format (WIM) image of a
reference machine is used to provision new machines
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Customize the behavior of Remote Desktop Protocol when connecting to a machine
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Register a virtual machine with a XenDesktop Desktop Delivery Controller (DDC) server
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Customize a virtual machine’s system specifications, such as adding multiple hard disk drives
n
Customize the guest OS for a machine, for instance, by including specified users in selected local
groups
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Enable cleanup of a the Active Directory account of a machine after it is destroyed
Specifying the characteristics of the machines to be provisioned is generally done by adding properties to
blueprints and build profiles. You can make custom properties available to multiple blueprints and all
business groups by placing them in build profiles.
Any property specified in a blueprint overrides the same property specified in the incorporated build
profile. This enables a blueprint to use most of the properties in a profile while differing from the profile in
some limited way. For more information, see Order of Precedence for Custom Properties..
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