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Storage Provision VM Image Process

This use case adds additional storage to a vCenter server, and provisions a new VM with the additional storage assigned. Storage is provisioned on NetApp using NFS export. A VMware datastore is then created using the new NFS storage. A VM is then created on the new storage.

The use case can start from the Start Form ‘Storage Provision VMware Image’.

CA Server Automation Connectors Called

• Query Service Controller
• Storage Provision NFS
• Storage Create NAS Datastore
• Provision VC Image
• VC Job Status
• Publish Indication

Connect Parameters

The process takes the following connect parameters:

T_SVC_URL__

T_SVC_USER__

T_SVC_PASSWORD__

T_STORAGE_VCENTER__

T_STORAGE_ESX__

T_STORAGE_DATASET__

T_STORAGE_DATASET_SIZE__

T_STORAGE_POLICY__

T_STORAGE_RES_POOL__

T_DATACENTER_NAME__ T_COMPUTE_RESOURCE_NAME__

T_STORAGE_TARGET_LOC__

T_CLONE_NAME__

T_TARGET_USERNAME__

T_TARGET_PASSWORD__

T_VM_NAME_CLONE_FROM__ (mutually exclusive with T_VC_TEMPLATE__)

T_VC_TEMPLATE__ (mutually exclusive with T_VM_NAME_CLONE_FROM__)

T_VC_SPECIFICATION__ (Optional)

T_NETAPP_SERVER_NAME__ (Optional)

T_NETAPP_SERVER_USERNAME__ (Optional)

T_NETAPP_SERVER_PASSWORD__ (Optional)

T_NETAPP_SERVER_PROTOCOL__ (Optional)

T_NETAPP_SERVER_PORT__ (Optional)

T_VC_DATASTORE_PAUSE__