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Imaging Services

CA Virtual Assurance can provision new virtual machines, logical partitions, or Solaris Zones, and reimage existing resources where appropriate. Provisioning functions let you clone, migrate, configure and change the properties of VMs, and create and manage LPARs and Solaris Zones.

The imaging service component uses and integrates with the following technologies to perform provisioning operations:

• VMware vCenter Server integration for VM provisioning.
• Hyper-V integration for VM provisioning that is based on local templates on Hyper-V servers out of the box.
  • Integration with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manger (SCVMM) for reuse of existing SCVMM image libraries.
• Solaris Zones integration for zones provisioning.
• Citrix XenServer integration for VM provisioning.
• VMware vCloud Director integration for VM provisioning.
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization integration for KVM provisioning.

Imaging services generate events for the following actions:

• An imaging job has been submitted to the imaging server.
• Imaging job status changes occurred.
• The target computer is discovered after the imaging job succeeds.