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Application Provisioning Wizard

The Application Provisioning wizard allows you to provision and configure an application using an application template.

This section contains the following topics:

General

Configure Resources

Configure Interfaces

Configure Properties

Finalizing

General

The General screen contains the following fields:

Name

Unique name of the provisioned application on this grid.

Description

Human-readable description of the application.

User 1

Free-form user-defined text intended for specifying billing code.

User 2

Free-form user-defined text intended for specifying billing code.

Documentation URL

URL where the documentation for the application can be found. The URL may be opened by clicking on the Open URL text to the right of the field.

Configure Resources

The Configure Resources screen contain the two sections: Constrain by Resources and Volumes.

Constrain by Resources

Accept the default or specify the amount of CPU, memory, and bandwidth resource by moving the slide bar or entering the value. The following resource types can be specified:

CPU

Portion of CPU or number of CPUs to be allocated for the application. Fractional amounts can be specified as a decimal number, such as 0.5 or 3.5. Whole CPU is specified simply as an integer, such as 12.

Memory

Amount of memory allocated for the application. The amount is specified as an integer value in megabytes, such as 512M or gigabytes, such as 9G.

Bandwidth

Amount of network bandwidth allocated for this application. The amount is specified as an integer value in megabits/sec, such as 10M or gigabits/sec, such as 1G.

To restore the default value for a resource, click the restore icon.

Volumes

Specify the volume size by clicking the Size field for the App Volume you want to change. The default size of the volumes are shown in normal font weight. Volume sizes explicitly configured for this application are in bold.

App Volume

Application storage location, such as code and mon.

Size

Volume size specified as an integer value in megabytes, such as 50M or gigabytes, such as 2G.

Filesystem

Storage location

If the grid is configured in the Backbone Fabric Controller to use a SAN, the following displays:

Local: Stores the volumes locally, such as a hard drive on a server, on the grid

SAN: Stores the volumes on the SAN. You may specify the default location of the volume store in the BFC.

For additional information about configuring a grid to use a SAN, refer to the BFC User Guide.