Now that we have completed the installation and successfully passed the functional validation phase 1 (Chapter 3, Functional Validation – Phase 1 and Installing Secondary Nodes), we will continue to focus our efforts on the configuration of a guest operating system (GOS) before it can be used during the creation of a vSphere Blueprint.
While vRealize Automation supports several methods to provision virtual machines, we will be focusing on the following:
Scenario: This provisions machines by cloning from a template object created from an existing Windows or Linux machine called the reference machine and a customization specification
Platform: vSphere
Provisioning method: Cloning
Note
For additional details on different provision methods, please read http://goo.gl/cvY5HI.
This stage is immensely important for a successful deployment of a service catalog item; otherwise, we will be spending an awful lot of time troubleshooting...