Provision Machine: VMware vCenter
The Provision vCenter machine action type provisions a Virtual Machine (VM). A template and a target vCenter specification that works with the template is required. If a service rule exists for provisioning a VM, that new VM is placed in the service for which the rule was created.
The Details section of the action definition contains the following fields:
Specifies the name of the server on which vCenter resides. Select one from the drop-down list.
Specifies the name of the data center on which to provision the machine. Select one from the drop-down list.
Specifies the name of the server on which the compute resource resides. Select one from the drop-down list.
Specifies the name of the VMware ESX server that is to be the target of the provisioned VM. Select one from the drop-down list.
Specifies the name of the data store to use. Select one from the drop-down list.
Specifies the VC target location. Select one from the drop-down list.
Specifies the name or VC name to use from the specification. Select one from the drop-down list. Alternatively, you can use automatically generated text or text extracted from event messages.
Specifies the user name credentials to access the specification.
Specifies the password to access the specification.
Specifies which available VC virtual machine to use. If selected, click one from the drop-down list.
Specifies which available VC template to use. If clicked, select one of the software package groups that has previously been created from the drop-down list.
Specifies the number of network interface cards used by the VC template.
Specifies the name of the VC specification to use. Select one from the drop-down list.
Specifies the number of network interface cards used by the VC specification.
Displays the type of operating system for the provisioned VM.
Select to specify that the ticket requires approval by a third party.
Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.
Select to close the ticket after it is approved or rejected.
Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.
Select a valid ticket type from the drop-down list. Depending on your configuration, valid types include:
Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.
Specifies the template to use to create a ticket. Select a template from the drop-down list. Depending on the ticket type selected, the form is populated with corresponding values.
Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.
Specifies the amount of memory to allocate to the VM, in megabytes.
Specifies the number of virtual processors to allocate to the VM.
(Optional) Specifies the storage datastore under which to create additional hard disks.
(Optional) Specifies the size of an additional hard drive.
(Optional) Specifies the SCSI controller to use to create the additional hard drive.
Lets you change network connection settings.
Lets you add DNS search suffixes.
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