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Make Physical Systems Available to Users

Use the following process to make physical systems available for reservation:

  1. Identify the CA Server Automation service that contains the physical systems that you want to share.
  2. Import the service to create a Reservation Manager resource pool.
  3. Define the operating system images that a user can install on the available systems.
  4. Set up an access policy for both the resource pools and system images.

The following sections describe a quick way to set the Reservation Manager up to support reserving physical systems.