Provision Blueprints in Region A with IPAM and Validate the Blueprints

After you complete all setup tasks, you can provision blueprints and perform some customization. After provisioning is complete, you verify that the naming prefixes and IP addresses are correct.

Procedure

1. Log in to the vRealize Automation Rainpole portal.
   1. Open a Web browser and go to https://vra01svr01.rainpole.local/vcac/org/rainpole.
   2. Log in using the following credentials.

      Setting	Value
      User name	vra-admin-rainpole
      Password	vra-admin-rainpole_password
      Domain	rainpole.local

2. Navigate to the Catalog tab and click SFO-Service-Catalog.
3. Click Request for the blueprint named Windows Server 2012 R2 - SFO Prod and, optionally, customize the blueprint.
   1. (Optional) Select Windows Server 2012 R2 - SFO Prod and, under General, enter value for Description, Reason for Request, and Lease days.
   2. (Optional) Select vSphere_Machine_1 and enter CPU and Memory options under General.
   3. (Optional) Select vSphere_Machine_1, and under Storage, click Edit and select the Storage Reservation Policy option from the drop-down menu.
4. Click Submit and click OK.
5. Repeat the steps to deploy the Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 - SFO Prod blueprint.
6. Click the Requests tab and check the status of the new requests until Status is Successful.

   Provisioning might take some time.

7. Validate IP allocation by IPAM.
   1. Open a Web browser and go to https://mgmt01vnios01.rainpole.local.
   2. Log in using the user name and password for the vNIOS appliance.

      Setting	Value
      User name	admin
      Password	vnios_admin_password

   3. Click the Cloud tab and click the VMs tab.
   4. Verify that the IP address that is allocated to the newly provision virtual machine is correct.