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Configuring Advanced Blueprint
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Tenant administrators and business group managers can use custom properties and optional policies to
configure advanced blueprint settings such as reservation policies, Visual Basic scripts, and Active
Directory cleanup.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Applying Reservation Policies
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Enabling Visual Basic Scripts in Provisioning
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RDP Connections
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Enable Connections Using SSH
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Allow Requesters to Specify Machine Host Name
Applying Reservation Policies
When a user requests a machine, it can be provisioned on any reservation of the appropriate type that
has sufficient capacity for the machine. You can apply a reservation policy to a blueprint to restrict the
machines provisioned from that blueprint to a subset of available reservations.
Reservation policies provide an optional and helpful means of controlling how reservation requests are
processed. A reservation policy is often used to collect resources into groups for different service levels,
or to make a specific type of resource easily available for a particular purpose. The following scenarios
provide a few examples of possible uses for reservation policies:
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To ensure that machines provisioned from a virtual blueprint are placed on reservations with storage
devices that support NetApp FlexClone
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To restrict provisioning of cloud machines to a specific region containing a machine image that is
required for a specific blueprint
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To restrict provisioning of Cisco UCS physical machines to reservations on endpoints on which the
selected service profile template and boot policy are available
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As an additional means of using a Pay As You Go allocation model for vApps
You can add multiple reservations to a reservation policy, but a reservation can belong to only one policy.
You can assign a single reservation policy to more than one blueprint. A blueprint can have only one
reservation policy.
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