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4 (Optional) Enter a description in the Description text box.
5 (Optional) Select the Master check box to allow users to copy your blueprint.
6 Select who can provision machines with this blueprint.
Roles Who Can Provision
If you are both a business group
manager and a tenant administrator
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Select the Shared blueprint check box to allow the blueprint to be entitled to
users in any business group.
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Deselect the Shared blueprint check box to create a local blueprint, and
select a business group from the Business group drop-down menu.
Business group manager Select a business group from the Business group drop-down menu.
Tenant administrator Your blueprints are always shared. You cannot choose who can use them to
provision machines.
7 (Optional) Select a reservation policy from the Reservation policy drop-down menu.
This option requires additional configuration by a fabric administrator to create a reservation policy.
8 Select a machine prefix from the Machine prefix drop-down menu.
You can select Use group default to accept the default machine prefix business group for the user.
9 (Optional) Enter a number in the Maximum per user text box to limit the number of machines that a
single user can provision with this blueprint.
10 (Optional) Set the daily cost of the machine by typing the amount in the Cost (daily) text box.
This cost is added to any cost profiles that your fabric administrator sets up.
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Specify PXE Build Information
The build information settings determine how a machine is provisioned.
Prerequisites
Specify PXE Blueprint Information.
Procedure
1 Click the Build Information tab.
2 Select how machines provisioned from this blueprint are classified from the Blueprint type drop-
down menu.
Hypervisor indicates that the machine is being provisioned as a hypervisor running VMware ESXi or
ESX. For record-keeping and licensing purposes, Hypervisor is considered a server.
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