The Application Provisioning wizard allows you to provision and configure an application using an application template.
The General screen contains the following fields:
Unique name of the provisioned application on this grid.
Human-readable description of the application.
Free-form user-defined text intended for specifying billing code.
Free-form user-defined text intended for specifying billing code.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Application storage location, such as code and mon.
Volume size specified as an integer value in megabytes, such as 50M or gigabytes, such as 2G.
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.
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