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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:

VC Server

Specifies the name of the server on which vCenter resides. Select one from the drop-down list.

VC Data Center

Specifies the name of the data center on which to provision the machine. Select one from the drop-down list.

VC Compute Resource

Specifies the name of the server on which the compute resource resides. Select one from the drop-down list.

VC ESX Server

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.

VC Datastore

Specifies the name of the data store to use. Select one from the drop-down list.

VC Target Location

Specifies the VC target location. Select one from the drop-down list.

Hostname/VM Name

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.

User Name

Specifies the user name credentials to access the specification.

Password

Specifies the password to access the specification.

VC Virtual Machine

Specifies which available VC virtual machine to use. If selected, click one from the drop-down list.

VC Template

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.

NICs (VC Template)

Specifies the number of network interface cards used by the VC template.

VC Specification

Specifies the name of the VC specification to use. Select one from the drop-down list.

NICs (VC Specification)

Specifies the number of network interface cards used by the VC specification.

OS System Type

Displays the type of operating system for the provisioned VM.

Require Approval

Select to specify that the ticket requires approval by a third party.

Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.

Auto close ticket on approval/rejection

Select to close the ticket after it is approved or rejected.

Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.

Ticket Types

Select a valid ticket type from the drop-down list. Depending on your configuration, valid types include:

• Default
• Incident
• Problem
• Request

Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.

Templates

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.

Memory

Specifies the amount of memory to allocate to the VM, in megabytes.

Virtual Processors

Specifies the number of virtual processors to allocate to the VM.

Datastore

(Optional) Specifies the storage datastore under which to create additional hard disks.

Drive Size

(Optional) Specifies the size of an additional hard drive.

SCSI Controller

(Optional) Specifies the SCSI controller to use to create the additional hard drive.

Network Management

Lets you change network connection settings.

Global NIC Settings

Lets you add DNS search suffixes.