A blueprint is the complete specification for a virtual, cloud, or physical machine. Blueprints determine a machine's attributes, the manner in which it is provisioned, and its policy and management settings. Create three blueprints from which to clone the virtual machine for your environment using pre-configured resources on the vCenter Server compute cluster in both Region A and the Remote Office/Branch Office. Tenants use these blueprints to automatically provision virtual machines.
Repeat this procedure to create three Unified Single Machine blueprints, one for each blueprint name listed in the following table.
Blueprint Name |
VM Template |
Reservation Policy |
Customization Specification |
Service Catalog |
Windows Server 2012 R2 - Unified Prod |
windows-2012r2-64 |
UnifiedBlueprint-Policy |
os-windows-joindomain-custom-spec |
Unified Single Machine Catalog |
Windows Server 2012 R2 With SQL2012 - Unified Prod |
windows-2012r2-64-sql2012 |
UnifiedBlueprint-Policy |
os-windows-joindomain-custom-spec |
Unified Single Machine Catalog |
Red hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Unified Prod |
redhat6-enterprise-64 |
UnifiedBlueprint-Policy |
os-linux-custom-spec |
Unified Single Machine Catalog |
Procedure
- Log in to the vRealize Automation Rainpole portal.
- Open a Web browser and go to https://vra01svr01.rainpole.local/vcac/org/rainpole.
- Log in using the following credentials.
Setting |
Value |
User name |
vra-admin-rainpole |
Password |
vra-admin-rainpole_password |
Domain |
rainpole.local |
- Navigate to .
- Click New.
- In the New Blueprint dialog box, configure the following settings on the General tab.
Setting |
Value |
Name |
Windows Server 2012 R2 - Unified |
Archive (days) |
15 |
Deployment limit |
Default setting (blank) |
Minimum |
30 |
Maximum |
270 |
- Click the Properties tab.
- Click Add on the Property Groups tab.
- Select the property group Select Location and click OK.
- Click OK.
- Select and drag the vSphere Machine icon to the Design Canvas.
- Click the General tab, configure the following settings, and click Save.
Setting |
Value |
ID |
Default setting (vSphere_vCenter_Machine_1) |
Reservation Policy |
UnifiedBlueprint-Policy |
Machine Prefix |
Use group default |
Minimum |
Default setting |
Maximum |
Default setting |
- Click the Build Information tab, configure the following settings, and click Save.
Setting |
Value |
Blueprint Type |
Server |
Action |
Clone |
Provisioning Workflow |
CloneWorkflow |
Clone from |
windows-2012r2-64 |
Customization spec |
os-windows-joindomain-custom-spec |
- Click the Machine Resources tab, configure the following settings, and click Save.
Setting |
Minimum |
Maximum |
CPU |
1 |
4 |
Memory (MB): |
4096 |
16384 |
Storage |
50 |
60 |
- Click the Network tab.
- Select Network & Security in the Categories section to display the list of available network and security components.
- Select the Existing Network component and drag it onto the design canvas.
- Click in the Existing network text box and select the Ext-Net-Profile-Production-Web network profile.
Blueprint Name |
Existing Network |
Windows Server 2012 R2 - Unified |
Ext-Net-Profile-Production-Web |
Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL2012 - Unified |
Ext-Net-Profile-Production-DB |
Red hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Unified |
Ext-Net-Profile-Production-App |
- Click Save.
- Select vSphere_Machine properties from the design canvas.
- Select the Network tab, click New, and configure the following settings. Click OK.
Setting |
Value |
Network |
ExtNetProfileProductionWeb |
Assignment Type |
Static IP |
Address |
Default setting (blank) |
- Click Finish to save the blueprint.
- Select the blueprint Windows Server 2012 R2 - Unified and click Publish.
- Navigate to and add the blueprint to the Unified Single Machine Catalog.
- In the Catalog Items list, click the blueprint labeled Windows Server 2012 R2 - Unified.
- In the Configure Catalog Items dialog box, set Service to Unified Single Machine Catalog, and click OK.