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Overview

The Instance Settings property sheet allows you to specialize an appliance instance for its role in the application.

The instance settings apply only to one appliance instance and override any defaults specified in the class of the appliance.

Most instance settings have their default values defined in the appliance class. When you change these values, they are shown in the property sheet in bold.

For specific settings, instead of defining an explicit value, you can redirect a setting to obtain its value from the settings of the containing assembly.

The redirected settings display in blue. You can find more information about redirected settings in Redirected Properties.

To reach the Instance Settings property sheet in the infrastructure editor, double-click the appliance on the canvas or right-click the appliance shape and click Attributes, Resources, User Volumes, Property Values or Notes from the menu.

The instance settings are divided as follows:

• Attributes
• Resources
• User Volumes
• Property Values
• Instance Notes

Notes:

• The descriptions here are written assuming you understand the concepts described in the Overview Guide. Short definitions of terms are also available in the Glossary.
• When the appliance instance is contained in an assembly that is not the main application assembly, the instance settings specialize the instance for its role in that assembly. The assembly itself may be further specialized for its role in its containing assembly, recursively going up to the whole application.
• The Instance Settings property sheet is read-only if you opened it on an instance within a catalog assembly. To learn how to modify catalog classes, see Branching Classes.
• If some settings need to be applied to all instances of an appliance, you can use the mechanism described in Redirecting Properties. If the settings in the appliance class needs to be changed, see Branching Classes and Class Editor - Simple.