This section lists vRealize Automation custom properties that begin with the letter V.
Although general support for VMware vCloud ® Networking and Security ™ 5.5.x (vCNS) ended in September 2016, the VCNS custom properties continue to be valid for VMware NSX ™ purposes. See the VMware Knowledge Base article End of Availability and End of General Support for VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.x (2144733) at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2144733 for more information.
| Property | Description |
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| VbScript.PreProvisioning.Name | Specifies the full path of a Visual Basic script to be run before a machine is provisioned. For example, %System-Drive%\Program Files(x86)\VMware\vCAC Agents\EPI_Agent\Scripts\SendEmail.vbs. The script file must reside on the system on which the Visual Basic script EPI agent is installed. |
| VbScript.PostProvisioning.Name | Specifies the full path of a Visual Basic script to be run after a machine is provisioned. For example, %System-Drive%\Program Files(x86)\VMware\vCAC Agents\EPI_Agent\Scripts\SendEmail.vbs. The script file must reside on the system on which the Visual Basic script EPI agent is installed. |
| VbScript.UnProvisioning.Name | Specifies the full path of a Visual Basic script to be run when a machine is destroyed. For example, %System-Drive%\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC Agents\EPI_Agent\Scripts\SendEmail.vb. The script file must reside on the system on which the Visual Basic script EPI agent is installed. |
| VCloud.Lease.Sync.TimeBufferMins | Specifies a threshold integer value for a compute resource such that lease synchronization between vCloud Director and vRealize Automation only occur for vCloud Director or vCloud Air-provisioned machines that are set to expire in vCloud Director or vCloud Air in that time period. If a conflict is found, the lease value is synchronized to match the lease length defined in vRealize Automation. The default VCloud.Lease.Sync.TimeBufferMins value is 720 minutes, which is 12 hours. If VCloud.Lease.Sync.TimeBufferMins is not present, the default value is used. For example, if the default values are used, vRealize Automation runs the lease synchronization check workflow every 45 minutes, which is the workflow default, and only the leases of machines that are set to expire within 12 hours are changed to match the lease length defined in vRealize Automation. |
| VCloud.Owner.UseEndpointAccount | Set to true to assign the endpoint account as the vCloud Air or vCloud Director machine owner for provisioning and import operations. For change ownership operations, the owner is not changed on the endpoint. If not specified or set to false, the vRealize Automation owner is the machine owner. |
| VCloud.Template.MakeIdenticalCopy | Set to true to clone an identical copy of the vCloud Air or vCloud Director template for machine provisioning. The machine is provisioned as an identical copy of the template. Settings specified in the template, including storage path, supersede settings specified in the blueprint. The only changes from the template are the names of the cloned machines, which are generated from the machine prefix specified in the blueprint. vCloud Air or vCloud Director machines that are provisioned as identical copies can use networks and storage profiles that are not available in the vRealize Automation reservation. To avoid having unaccounted reservation allocations, verify that the storage profile or network specified in the template is available in the reservation. |
| VCNS.LoadBalancerEdgePool.Names.name |
Specifies the NSX load balancing pools to which the virtual machine is assigned during provisioning. The virtual machine is assigned to all service ports of all specified pools. The value is an edge/pool name or a list of edge/pool names separated by commas. Names are case-sensitive.
Note:
You can add a machine IP address to an existing load balancer by using the VCNS.LoadBalancerEdgePool.Names custom property. vRealize Automation and NSX use the first member of the specified edge load balancer pool to determine the new member port and monitor port settings. However, NSX 6.2 does not require that the member port setting be specified. To avoid provisioning failure when using VCNS.LoadBalancerEdgePool.Names with NSX 6.2 to add a machine to an existing pool, you must specify a port value for the first member of the load balancer pool in NSX.
Appending a name allows you to create multiple versions of a custom property. For example, the following properties might list load balancing pools set up for general use and machines with high, moderate, and low performance requirements:
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| VCNS.SecurityGroup.Names.name |
Specifies the NSX security group or groups to which the virtual machine is assigned during provisioning. The value is a security group name or a list of names separated by commas. Names are case-sensitive.
Appending a name allows you to create multiple versions of the property, which can be used separately or in combination. For example, the following properties can list security groups intended for general use, for the sales force, and for support:
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| VCNS.SecurityGroup.Names.blueprint_name |
When using NSX, specifies the Edge Pool with which to associate the blueprint. |
| VCNS.SecurityTag.Names.name |
Specifies the NSX security tag or tags to which the virtual machine is associated during provisioning. The value is a security tag name or a list of names separated by commas. Names are case-sensitive.
Appending a name allows you to create multiple versions of the property, which can be used separately or in combination. For example, the following properties can list security tags intended for general use, for the sales force, and for support:
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| VirtualMachine.Admin.UseGuestAgent |
If the guest agent is installed as a service on a template for cloning, set to True on the machine blueprint to enable the guest agent service on machines cloned from that template. When the machine is started, the guest agent service is started. Set to False to disable the guest agent. If set to False, the enhanced clone workfow will not use the guest agent for guest operating system tasks, reducing its functionality to VMwareCloneWorkflow. If not specified or set to anything other than False, the enhanced clone workflow sends work items to the guest agent. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.NameCompletion |
Specifies the domain name to include in the fully qualified domain name of the machine that the RDP or SSH files generate for the user interface options Connect Using RDP or Connect Using SSH option. For example, set the value to myCompany.com to generate the fully qualified domain name |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.ConnectAddress |
Specifies the RDP connection address of the machine to which an RDP file is downloaded when the user interface option Connect Using RDP is used or attached to automatic emails. Do not use in a blueprint or property group unless you require the user to be prompted and you have not supplied a default value. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.ConnectAddress.Regex |
Used by a vRealize Automation administrator to define a regular expression to match an IP address for terminal connections, such as an RDP connection. If matched, the IP address is saved under the VirtualMachine.Admin.ConnectAddress custom property. Otherwise, the first available IP address is designated. For example, setting the property value to 10.10.0. allows selection of an IP address from a 10.10.0.* subnet that is assigned to the virtual machine. If the subnet has not been assigned, the property is ignored. This property is available for use with Openstack. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision |
Determines whether thin provisioning is used on ESX compute resources using local or iSCSI storage. Set to True to use thin provisioning. Set to False to use standard provisioning. This property is for virtual provisioning. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.CustomizeGuestOSDelay |
Specifies the time to wait after customization is complete and before starting the guest operating system customization. The value must be in HH:MM:SS format. If the value is not set, the default value is one minute (00:01:00). If you choose not to include this custom property, provisioning can fail if the virtual machine reboots before guest agent work items are completed, causing provisioning to fail. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.NetworkInterfaceType |
Indicates the network adapter type that is supported and emulated by the guest operating system. Use to create a new virtual machine and assign a specific adapter type for a template cloning operation. Use to modify the network settings of a newly provisioned virtual machine. The following options are available:
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| VirtualMachine.Admin.Name |
Specifies the generated machine name for
vSphere, for example CodyVM01. When creating custom workflows or plug-ins for customizing a virtual machine name, set this property to match the name of the virtual machine. This is an internal input property for the agent to name the virtual machine.
Note: This property is for
vSphere only.
The value specified in the blueprint has no effect on this property. This property is not intended to be used to prompt the user. Use the HostName property to prompt the user. If the property is set at runtime, the container name that is created in the hypervisor might not match the item record name. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.UUID |
Specifies the UUID of the machine. The guest agent records the value when the machine is created. The value becomes read-only. The value in the blueprint or property group has no effect on this property. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.AgentID |
Specifies the UUID of the guest agent. The guest agent recorsd the value when the machine is created. The value becomes read-only. The value in the blueprint or property group has no effect on this property. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.Owner |
Specifies the user name of the machine owner. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.Approver |
Specifies the user name of the group manager who approved the machine request. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.Description |
Specifies the description of the machine as entered or modified by its owner or an administrator. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.EncryptPasswords | If set to True, specifies that the administrator passwords are encrypted. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.AdministratorEmail |
Specifies the manager email addresses or Active Directory accounts for the business group of the provisioning blueprint. Multiple email addresses are separated by a comma, for example |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.TotalDiskUsage |
Specifies the total disk space that the machine uses, including all disks as specified by the VirtualMachine.DiskN.Size properties and the swap file as specified by the VMware.Memory. Reservation property. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.Hostname |
Informs the administrator which host is used for provisioning the machine on the endpoint. The specified value is implemented on the machine and is populated during data collection. For example, if the compute resource of a machine is changed, a proxy agent updates the value of the machine’s
VirtualMachine.Admin.Hostname property.
Note: This is an internal output property from the agent that is populated during the data collection process and identifies the host on which a machine resides.
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| VirtualMachine.Admin.ClusterName |
Informs the administrator which cluster contains the compute resource for the machine to use.
Note: This is an internal output property from the agent that is populated during the data collection process and identifies the cluster in which a machine resides.
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| VirtualMachine.Admin.ApplicationID |
List the application IDs that can be assigned to a machine. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.AddOwnerToAdmins |
Set to True (default) to add the machine’s owner, as specified by the VirtualMachine.Admin.Owner property, to the local administrators group on the machine. This property is not available for provisioning by cloning. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.AllowLogin | Set to True (default) to add the machine owner to the local remote desktop users group, as specified by the VirtualMachine.Admin.Owner property. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.DiskInterfaceType | Indicates the type of disk drivers. The following disk drivers are supported:
This property is for virtual provisioning. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.EagerZero | When set to true, specifies that the machine disks are provisioned using the VMware provisioning format of eager zero. Thick provision eager zero is a type of thick virtual disk that supports clustering features such as fault tolerance. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated at creation time. In contrast to the flat format, the data remaining on the physical device is zeroed out when the virtual disk is created. It might take much longer to create disks in this format than to create other types of disks. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.ForceHost |
Specifies the name of the ESX host. The property is only honored if
VirtualMachine.Admin.HostSelectionPolicy is set to EXACT_MATCH.
Note: This property is for
vSphere only.
When provisioning against a vSphere cluster, you can use the VirtualMachine.Admin.ForceHost property to specify the host on which a machine is to be provisioned. This property is used only if DRS is not set to automatic for the cluster. If the cluster has DRS enabled and is set to Automatic, vSphere relocates the provisioned machine when the machine is restarted. |
| VirtualMachine.Admin.HostSelectionPolicy |
Optionally set to EXACT_MATCH to require the machine to be placed on the host specified by the
VirtualMachine.Admin.ForceHost property. If the host is unavailable, the request results in a failure. If a host is not specified, the next best available host is selected. If set to EXACT_MATCH, an error occurs if the specified host does not have enough memory or is in maintenance mode.
Note: This property applies to
vSphere only.
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| VirtualMachine.Agent.CopyToDisk | Set to True (default) to copy the guest agent executable file to %System-Drive%\VRM\Build\Bin on the machine’s disk. |
| VirtualMachine.Agent.GuiRunOnce | Set to True to include guest agent execution in the SysPrep.inf run once section. Set to False for the Linux agent to stop the provisioning workflow. |
| VirtualMachine.Agent.Reboot | Set to True (default) to specify that the guest agent restarts the machine following installation of the guest operating system. |
| VirtualMachine.CDROM.Attach | Set to False to provision the machine without a CD-ROM device. The default is True. |
| VirtualMachine.CPU.Count |
Specifies the number of CPUs, for example 2, allocated to a machine. The default is the value specified by the CPU setting on the blueprint.
Note: This custom property value is overridden by the CPU value on the blueprint when the machine is first provisioned.
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| VirtualMachine.Customize.WaitComplete | Set to True to prevent the provisioning workflow from sending work items to the guest agent until all customizations are complete. |
| VirtualMachine.Core.Count | If set to a value greater than zero, specifies the number of cores per socket when provisioning the virtual machine. You can use this property on a blueprint to specify cores per virtual socket or total number of sockets. For example, your licensing terms might restrict software that is licensed per socket or available operating systems only recognize so many sockets and additional CPUs must be provisioned as additional cores. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.Letter |
Specifies the drive letter or mount point of a machine’s disk N. The default is C. For example, to specify the letter D for Disk 1, define the custom property as VirtualMachine.Disk1.Letter and enter the value D. Disk numbering must be sequential. When used in conjunction with a guest agent, this value specifies the drive letter or mount point under which an additional disk N is mounted by the guest agent in the guest operating system. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.Size |
Defines the size in GB of disk N. For example, to give a size of 150 GB to a disk G, define the custom property VirtualMachine.Disk0.Size and enter a value of 150. Disk numbering must be sequential. By default a machine has one disk referred to by VirtualMachine.Disk0.Size, where size is specified by the storage value on the blueprint from which the machine is provisioned. The storage value on the blueprint user interface overwrites the value in the VirtualMachine.Disk0.Size property. The VirtualMachine.Disk0.Size property is not available as a custom property because of its relationship with the storage option on the blueprint. More disks can be added by specifying VirtualMachine.Disk1.Size, VirtualMachine.Disk2.Size and so on. VirtualMachine.Admin.TotalDiskUsage always represents the total of the .DiskN.Size properties plus the VMware.Memory.Reservation size allocation. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.IsFixed |
Disables the editing of a specific disk when reconfiguring a machine. Set to True to disable display of the edit capacity option for a specific volume. The True value is case-sensitive. The N value is the 0-based index of the disk. Alternatively, you can set the VirtualMachine.DiskN.IsFixed custom property to True in the VirtualMachineProperties table in the database or use the Repository API to specify a URI value such as .../Repository/Data/ManagementModelEntities.svc/VirtualMachines(guid'60D93A8A-F541-4CE0-A6C6-78973AC0F1D2')/VirtualMachineProperties. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.Label |
Specifies the label for a machine’s disk N. The disk label maximum is 32 characters. Disk numbering must be sequential. When used with a guest agent, specifies the label of a machine's disk N inside the guest operating system. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.Active |
Set to True (default) to specify that the machine's disk N is active. Set to False to specify that the machine's disk N is not active. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.FS |
Specifies the file system of the machine’s disk N. The options are NTFS (default), FAT and FAT32. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.Percent |
Specifies the percentage of the disk N to be formatted by a guest agent for the machine’s use. That machine cannot use the remaining portion of the disk. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.StorageReservationPolicy |
Specifies the storage reservation policy to use to find storage for disk N. Also assigns the named storage reservation policy to a volume. To use this property, substitute the volume number for N in the property name and specify a storage reservation policy name as the value. This property is equivalent to the storage reservation policy name specified on the blueprint. Disk numbering must be sequential. This property is valid for all Virtual and vCloud reservations. This property is not valid for Physical, Amazon, or OpenStack reservations. You can use VirtualMachine.Disk N.StorageReservationPolicyMode to prevent provisioning from failing if there is insufficient space on the datastores in a storage reservation policy. Use this custom property to allow vRealize Automation to select a datastore outside the specified storage reservation policy in cases where there is not sufficient space remaining on the datastores in the policy. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.StorageReservationPolicyMode |
Allocates disk N to the best available storage reservation policy. |
| VirtualMachine.DiskN.Storage |
Specifies the datastore on which to place the machine disk N, for example DATASTORE01. This property is also used to add a single datastore to a linked clone blueprint. N is the index (starting at 0) of the volume to assign. Enter the name of the datastore to assign to the volume. This is the datastore name as it appears in the Storage Path on the Edit Compute Resource page. Disk numbering must be sequential. |
| VirtualMachine.EPI.Type |
Specifies the type of external provisioning infrastructure. Set to BMC for BMC BladeLogic integration. Set to CitrixProvisioning for Citrix provisioning server integration. |
| VirtualMachine.EULA.AcceptAll |
Set to true to specify that all the EULAs for the VM templates of the vCloud Air or vCloud Director endpoints are accepted during provisioning. |
| VirtualMachine.Host.TpmEnabled | Limits virtual machine placement to hosts that have a Trust Protection Module (TPM) device installed and recognized by ESX and vSphere. The default value is False. All hosts in a cluster must have a Trust Protection Module device installed. If no acceptable hosts or clusters are found, the machine cannot be provisioned until this property is removed. |
| VirtualMachine.Memory.Size |
Specifies the size of the machine's memory in MB, such as 1024. The default is the value specified by the memory setting on the blueprint.
Note: This custom property setting is overridden by the memory setting on the blueprint when the machine is first provisioned.
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| VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Address |
Specifies the IP address of network device N in a machine provisioned with a static IP address. VirtualMachine.NetworkN custom properties are specific to individual blueprints and machines. When a machine is requested, network and IP address allocation is performed before the machine is assigned to a reservation. Because blueprints are not guaranteed to be allocated to a specific reservation, do not use this property on a reservation. This property is not supported for on-demand NAT or on-demand routed networks. |
| VirtualMachine.NetworkN.AdditionAddressM |
Defines additional M IP address allocated for an Openstack instance for network N, excluding the IP address set specified by the VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Address. property. More addresses are displayed on the Network tab in the Additional Addresses column. This property is used by Openstack machine state data collection. While this property is only data-collected by the OpenStack endpoint, it is not specific to OpenStack and can be used for lifecycle extensibility by other endpoint types. This property is not supported for on-demand NAT or on-demand routed networks. |
| VirtualMachine.NetworkN.AddressType |
Specifies how IP address allocation is supplied to the network provider, where Network
N is the network number, starting with 0. The following values are available:
The MANUAL value also requires that you specify an IP address. This property is available for configuring vCloud Air, vCloud Director, and vSphere machine components in the blueprint. Also see VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Name. This property is not supported for on-demand NAT or on-demand routed networks. |
| VirtualMachine.NetworkN.MacAddressType |
Indicates whether the MAC address of network device N is generated or user-defined (static). This property is available for cloning. The default value is generated. If the value is static, you must also use VirtualMachine.NetworkN.MacAddress to specify the MAC address. VirtualMachine.NetworkN custom properties are specific to individual blueprints and machines. When a machine is requested, network and IP address allocation is performed before the machine is assigned to a reservation. Because blueprints are not guaranteed to be allocated to a specific reservation, do not use this property on a reservation. This property is not supported for on-demand NAT or on-demand routed networks. |
| VirtualMachine.NetworkN.MacAddress |
Specifies the MAC address of a network device N. This property is available for cloning. If the value of VirtualMachine.NetworkN.MacAddressType is generated, this property contains the generated address. If the value of VirtualMachine.NetworkN.MacAddressType is static, this property specifies the MAC address. For virtual machines provisioned on ESX server hosts, the address must be in the range specified by VMware. For details, see vSphere documentation. VirtualMachine.NetworkN custom properties are specific to individual blueprints and machines. When a machine is requested, network and IP address allocation is performed before the machine is assigned to a reservation. Because blueprints are not guaranteed to be allocated to a specific reservation, do not use this property on a reservation. This property is not supported for on-demand NAT or on-demand routed networks. |
| VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Name |
Specifies the name of the network to connect to, for example the network device N to which a machine is attached. This is equivalent to a network interface card (NIC). By default, a network is assigned from the network paths available on the reservation on which the machine is provisioned. Also see VirtualMachine.NetworkN.AddressType. You can ensure that a network device is connected to a specific network by setting the value of this property to the name of a network on an available reservation. For example, if you give properties for N= 0 and 1, you get 2 NICs and their assigned value, provided the network is selected in the associated reservation. VirtualMachine.NetworkN custom properties are specific to blueprints and machines. When a machine is requested, network and IP address allocation is performed before the machine is assigned to a reservation. Because blueprints are not guaranteed to be allocated to a specific reservation, do not use this property on a reservation. You can add this property to a vCloud Air or vCloud Director machine component in a blueprint. This property is not supported for on-demand NAT or on-demand routed networks. |
| VirtualMachine.NetworkN.PortID |
Specifies the port ID to use for network device N when using a dvPort group with a vSphere distributed switch. VirtualMachine.NetworkN custom properties are specific to individual blueprints and machines. When a machine is requested, network and IP address allocation is performed before the machine is assigned to a reservation. Because blueprints are not guaranteed to be allocated to a specific reservation, do not use this property on a reservation. This property is not supported for on-demand NAT or on-demand routed networks. |
| VirtualMachine.NetworkN.ProfileName |
Specifies the name of a network profile from which to assign a static IP address to network device N or from which to obtain the range of static IP addresses that can be assigned to network device N of a cloned machine, where N=0 for the first device, 1 for the second, and so on. When you use the VirtualMachine.NetworkN.ProfileName property, the network profile it points to is used to allocate an IP address. However, the provisioned machine is attached to any network that is selected in the reservation using a round-robin fashion model. Changing this property value after the network is assigned has no effect on the expected IP address values for the designated machines. With WIM-based provisioning for virtual machines, you can use this property to specify a network profile and network interface or you can use the Network section of the Virtual Reservation page. You can also assign the network interface to a virtual network using the VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Name custom property.
The following attributes of the network profile are available to enable static IP assignment in a cloning blueprint:
VirtualMachine.NetworkN custom properties are specific to individual blueprints and machines. When a machine is requested, network and IP address allocation is performed before the machine is assigned to a reservation. Because blueprints are not guaranteed to be allocated to a specific reservation, do not use this property on a reservation. You cannot use this custom property to define an on-demand NAT or on-demand routed network profile name. Because on-demand network profile names are generated at allocation time (during provisioning), their names are unknown when creating or editing the blueprint. To specify NSX on-demand network information, use the applicable network component in the blueprint design canvas for your vSphere machine components. |
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Configures attributes of the network profile specified in VirtualMachine.NetworkN.ProfileName. VirtualMachine.NetworkN custom properties are specific to individual blueprints and machines. When a machine is requested, network and IP address allocation is performed before the machine is assigned to a reservation. Because blueprints are not guaranteed to be allocated to a specific reservation, do not use this property on a reservation. When specifying values for multiple DNS search suffixes using VirtualMachine.NetworkN.DnsSearchSuffixes, you can use commas to separate values for a Windows deployment. These properties are not supported for on-demand NAT or on-demand routed networks. |
| VirtualMachine.Rdp.File |
Specifies the RDP file that contains settings to be used when opening an RDP link to the machine. Can be used together with, or as an alternative to, VirtualMachine.Rdp.SettingN. The file must be located in the vRealize Automation server installation directory, for example %SystemDrive%\Program Files x86\VMware\vCAC\Server\Rdp\console.rdp. You must create the Rdp directory. |
| VirtualMachine.Rdp.SettingN |
Configures specific RDP settings. N is a unique number used to distinguish one RDP setting from another. For example, to specify the Authentication Level so that no authentication requirement is specified, define the custom property VirtualMachine.Rdp.Setting1 and set the value to authentication level:i:3. Use to open an RDP link to specify settings. For a list of available settings and correct syntax, see the Microsoft Windows RDP documentation. |
| VirtualMachine.Reconfigure.DisableHotCpu |
Set to true to specify that the reconfigure machine action restarts the specified machine. By default, the reconfigure machine action does not restart the machine. Performing a hot add of CPU, memory, or storage causes the reconfigure machine action to fail and not to restart the machine unless the Hot Add setting is enabled in vSphere for the machine or template. You can add VirtualMachine.Reconfigure.DisableHotCpu=true to a machine component in a vRealize Automation blueprint to disable the Hot Add setting and force the machine to restart regardless of the vSphere Hot Add setting. The custom property is only available for machine types that support hardware reconfiguration, which are vSphere, vCloud Air, and vCloud Director. |
| VirtualMachine.Request.Layout |
Specifies the property layout to be used in the virtual machine request page. The value must match the name of the layout to be used. |
| VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.Name |
Specifies the descriptive name of a software application N or script to install or run during provisioning. This is an optional and information-only property. It serves no real function for the enhanced clone workflow or the guest agent but it is useful for a custom software selection in a user interface or for software use reporting. |
| VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ScriptPath |
Specifies the full path to an application's install script. The path must be a valid absolute path as seen by the guest operating system and must include the name of the script filename. You can pass custom property values as parameters to the script by inserting {CustomPropertyName} in the path string. For example, if you have a custom property named ActivationKey whose value is 1234, the script path is D:\InstallApp.bat –key {ActivationKey}. The guest agent runs the command D:\InstallApp.bat –key 1234. Your script file can then be programmed to accept and use this value. You can also pass custom property values as parameters to the script by inserting {YourCustomProperty} in the path string. For example, entering the value \\vra-scripts.mycompany.com\scripts\changeIP.bat runs the changeIP.bat script from a shared location, but entering the value \\vra-scripts.mycompany.com\scripts\changeIP.bat {VirtualMachine.Network0.Address} runs the changeIP script but also passes the value of the VirtualMachine.Network0.Address property to the script as a parameter. Insert {Owner} to pass the machine owner name to the script. |
| VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt |
Allows vRealize Automation to obtain an encrypted string that is passed as a properly formatted VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ScriptPath custom property statement to the gugent command line. You can provide an encrypted string, such as your password, as a custom property in a command-line argument. This allows you to store encrypted information that the guest agent can decrypt and understand as a valid command-line argument. For example, the
To encrypt the password, you can create a
vRealize Automation custom property, for example
MyPassword = password, and enable encryption by selecting the available check box. The guest agent decrypts the
[MyPassword] entry to the value in the custom property
MyPassword and runs the script as
c:\dosomething.bat password.
If you set VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt to false, or do not create the VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt custom property, then the string inside the square brackets ( [ and ]) is not decrypted. |
| VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ISOName |
Specifies the path and filename of the ISO file relative to the datastore root. The format is /folder_name/subfolder_name/file_name.iso. If a value is not specified, the ISO is not mounted. |
| VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ISOLocation |
Specifies the storage path that contains the ISO image file to be used by the application or script. Format the path as it appears on the host reservation, for example netapp-1:it_nfs_1. If a value is not specified, the ISO is not mounted. |
| VirtualMachine.Storage.Name | Identifies the storage path on which the machine resides. The default is the value specified in the reservation that was used to provision the machine. |
| VirtualMachine.Storage.AllocationType | Stores collected groups to a single datastore. A distributed environment stores disks round-robin style. |
| VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.Enabled | If set to True, the storage cluster automation on the machine is enabled. If set to False, then storage cluster automation is disabled on the machine. The storage cluster automation type is determined by the VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.Behavior custom property. |
| VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.Behavior | Specifies an SDRS behavior type when VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.Enabled is set to True. The available behavior type values are automated or manual. The VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.Enabled and VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.Behavior properties are set after the machine is provisioned and after inventory data collection is finished. If automation is disabled, VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.Behavior is not present on the machine. |
| VirtualMachine.Storage.ReserveMemory |
Set to True to manage vSwap storage allocation to ensure availability and set allocation in the reservation. vSwap allocation is considered when you create or reconfigure a virtual machine. vSwap allocation checking is only available for
vSphere endpoints.
Note: If you do not specify the
VirtualMachine.Storage.ReserveMemory custom property when you create or provision the machine from
vRealize Automation, swap space availability is not ensured. If you add the property for an already provisioned machine, and the allocated reservation is full, the storage allocated in the reservation might exceed the actual allocated storage.
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| VirtualMachine.VDI.Type | Specifies the type of virtual desktop infrastructure. For XenDesktop provisioning, set to XenDesktop. |
| VMware.AttributeN.Name |
Specifies the name of an attribute in vRealize Orchestrator. For example, it specifies the value of the attribute used in the VMware.AttributeN.Name property. Replace the letter N with a number, starting with 0 and increasing for each attribute to set. |
| VMware.AttributeN.Value |
Specifies the value of the attribute used in the VMware.AttributeN.Name property. Replace the letter N with a number, starting with 0 and increasing for each attribute to set. |
| VMware.Endpoint.Openstack.IdentityProvider.Version | Specifies the version of Openstack Identity provider (Keystone) to use when authenticating an Openstack endpoint. Configure a value of 3 to authenticate with Keystone version 3 OpenStack Identity Provider. If you use any other value, or do not use this custom property, authentication defaults to Keystone version 2. |
| VMware.Endpoint.Openstack.Release | Deprecated. Specifies the OpenStack release, for example Havana or Icehouse, when creating an OpenStack endpoint. Required for 6.2.1, 6.2.2, and 6.2.3 OpenStack provisioning. |
| VMware.Hardware.Version |
Specifies the VM hardware version to be used for vSphere settings. Supported values are currently vmx-04, vmx-07, vmx-08, vmx-09 and vmx-10. This property is applicable for VM Create and VM Update workflows and is available only for basic workflow blueprints. |
| VMware.VirtualCenter.OperatingSystem |
Specifies the vCenter Server guest operating system version (VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier) with which vCenter Server creates the machine. This operating system version must match the operating system version to be installed on the provisioned machine. Administrators can create property groups using one of several property sets, for example, VMware[OS_Version]Properties, that are predefined to include the correct VMware.VirtualCenter.OperatingSystem values. This property is for virtual provisioning. When this property has a non-Windows value, the Connect Using RDP user interface option is disabled. The property can be used in a virtual, cloud or physical blueprint. For related information, see the enumeration type VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier in vSphere API/SDK Documentation. For a list of currently accepted values, see the vCenter Server documentation. |
| VMware.SCSI.Type |
For
vCloud Air,
vCloud Director, or
vSphere machine components in blueprints, specifies the SCSI machine type using one of the following case-sensitive values:
The VMware.SCSI.Type property is not available for use with the CloneWorkflow provisioning workflow. If you specify the CloneWorkflow provisioning workflow when configuring your machine component in the blueprint design canvas, you cannot use the VMware.SCSI.Type property. |
| VMware.SCSI.Sharing |
Specifies the sharing mode of the machine’s VMware SCSI bus. Possible values are based on the VirtualSCSISharing ENUM value and include noSharing, physicalSharing, and virtualSharing. If you specify the CloneWorkflow provisioning workflow when configuring your machine component in the blueprint design canvas, the VMware.SCSI.Sharing property is not available. The VMware.SCSI.Sharing property is not available for use with the CloneWorkflow provisioning workflow. If you specify the CloneWorkflow provisioning workflow when configuring your machine component in the blueprint design canvas, you cannot use the VMware.SCSI.Sharing property. |
| VMware.Memory.Reservation |
Specifies the size of the machine’s swap file, for example 1024. |
| VMware.Network.Type |
Specifies the network to connect the VM as specified in the reservation. The network adapter on the machine must be connected to a unique network.
The following adapter type values are available:
Set to E1000 when provisioning Windows 32-bit virtual machines on ESX server hosts to ensure that machines are created with the correct network adapter. This property is not used for physical provisioning. |
| VMware.VCenterOrchestrator.EndpointName |
Overrides a specified endpoint setting or specifies that a particular endpoint be used during the vRealize Automation IaaS provisioning process. The value of this property can be set to an applicable vRealize Orchestrator endpoint, such as external VRO, available in the environment. |
| VMware.VirtualCenter.Folder |
Specifies the name of the inventory folder in the data center in which to put the virtual machine. The default is VRM, which is also the vSphere folder in which vRealize Automation places provisioned machines if the property is not used. This value can be a path with multiple folders, for example production\email servers. A proxy agent creates the specified folder in vSphere if the folder does not exist. Folder names are case-sensitive. This property is available for virtual provisioning. |
| VDI.Server.Website |
Specifies the server name of the Citrix Web interface site to use in connecting to the machine. If the value of
VDI.Server.Name is a XenDesktop farm, this property must have an appropriate value or the machine owner cannot connect to the machine using XenDesktop. If this property is not specified, the
VDI.Server.Name property determines the desktop delivery controller to connect to, which must be the name of a server that hosts a desktop delivery controller.
Note: If the Citrix Web Interface (WI) has been replaced with StoreFront (SF), you can use this property instead of
VDI.Server.Name to connect to the XenDesktop server. An example value is
VDI.Server.Website=sqa-xddc-7.sqa.local/Citrix/StoreWeb. See
VDI.Server.Name for more information.
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| VDI.Server.Name | Specifies the server name, which hosts the desktop delivery controller, to register with, or the name of a XenDesktop farm that contains desktop delivery controllers with which to register. If the value is a XenDesktop farm name, the VDI.Server.Website property value must be the URL of an appropriate Citrix web interface site to use in connecting to the machine.
If the value is a server name, and at least one general XenDesktop VDI agent was installed without specifying a desktop delivery controller server, this value directs the request to the desired server. If the value is a server name, and only dedicated XenDesktop VDI agents for specific DDC servers were installed, this value must exactly match the server name configured for a dedicated agent.
Note: For more information about how to make StoreFront the default page in IIS, see Citrix documentation. See also
VDI.Server.Website.
Note: Changes in the Citrix web interface protocol have impacted how the
VDI.Server.Name default value is recognized. The value of the
VDI.Server.Name property is used as the default connection string to open the Citrix web interface when users connect to a virtual desktop. It is always the DNS/IP of the XD server. If that value does not connect to the Citrix interface, you are unable to access your VMs. However, you can use the
VDI.Server.Website custom property when the Citrix web interface is hosted on a server other than the XenDesktop server. When this property is present on the VM, it is used instead of
VDI.Server.Name.
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| VDI.Server.Group | For XenDesktop 5, specifies the name of the XenDesktop group to add machines to and the name of the catalog to which the group belongs, in the group_name;catalog_name format. For XenDesktop 4, specifies the name of the XenDesktop group to which machines are to be added. XenDesktop 4 preassigned groups are supported. |
| VDI.ActiveDirectory.Interval | Specifies an optional interval value in time span format for virtual desktop infrastructure machine Active Directory registration check. The default value is 00:00:15 (15 seconds). |
| VDI.ActiveDirectory.Timeout | Specifies an optional timeout value to wait before retrying Active Directory registration. The default value is 00:00:15 (30 minutes). |
| VDI.ActiveDirectory.Delay | Specifies an optional delay time value in time span format between successfully adding a machine to Active Directory and initiation of XenDesktop registration. The default value is 00:00:05 (5 seconds). |
| Vrm.DataCenter.Location | Allows you to use a blueprint to provision machines on more than one compute resource. You can add the Vrm.DataCenter.Location property to a blueprint, or enable the Display Location on Request option in the blueprint, to require that the user supply a datacenter location when they request machine provisioning. This property name is case-sensitive.
Note: If you enable the
Display Location on Request option on the blueprint, you do not need to also add the custom property.
Datacenter locations are configured in a DataCenterLocations.xml file, which provides the location values that are applied to compute resources. For related information about adding datacenter locations, see Configuring vRealize Automation. Because the Vrm.DataCenter.Location property cannot access the contents of the DataCenterLocations.xml file, you must rely on users to provide property values that match the locations provided in the DataCenterLocations.xml file. Use this property if you want to use the datacenter location value as input to an external action for another custom property. |
| Vrm.DataCenter.Policy | Specifies whether provisioning must use a compute resource associated with a particular location, or if any location is suitable. To enable this feature, you must add data center to a location file. Associate each compute resource with a location. This property name is case-sensitive. Set to Exact (default) to provision a requested machine on a compute resource associated with the location specified on the blueprint. The request fails if no reservations match the requested location. If the property is not present, the Exact default is used. Set to NonExact to provision a requested machine on a compute resource with sufficient capacity and associated with the location specified on the blueprint. If that compute resource is not available, then use the next available compute resource with sufficient capacity without regard to location. |
| Vrm.Software.IdNNNN This row is specific to BMC BladeLogic. |
Specifies a software job or policy to be applied to all machines provisioned from the blueprint. Set the value to
job_type=job_path, where
job_type is the numeral that represents the BMC BladeLogic job type and
job_path is the location of the job in BMC BladeLogic, for example
4=/Utility/putty.
NNNN is a number from 1000 to 1999. The first property must start with 1000 and increment in numerical order for each additional property.
1 — AuditJob 2 — BatchJob 3 — ComplianceJob 4 — DeployJob 5 — FileDeployJob 6 — NSHScriptJob 7 — PatchAnalysisJob 8 — SnapshotJob |
| Vrm.Software.IdNNNN This row is specific to HP Server Automation. |
(Optional) Specifies an HP Server Automation policy to be applied to all machines provisioned from the blueprint. NNNN is a number from 1000 to 1999. The first property must start with 1000 and increment in numerical order for each additional property. |
