Deploy the workflow model

Hi all

I have a fundamental question, because I hate having to reinvent the wheel - there all workflows in order to deploy a model?

Also, I have two supplementary questions:

  • As far as I understand it, deployment of a model actually creates a virtual machine from scratch and clones somehow drive the model and you get a nice VM with an operating system almost ready to work. I wonder if something similar is possible for existing virtual machines - which means that I've created a custom VM and I want to deploy a model of him (so that I get a pre-installed OS). I don't know if this is possible, but I thought I'd ask

  • Deployment of a model does not allow the operator to choose RAM/network - so I think that these settings are inherited from the model. If I need to substitute them I guess I would need to reconfigure the virtual computer after deployment. That would break the BONES inside? I especially would need to add a new network card, define certain MAC addresses, change the RAM and maybe add a few records.

  • Is there an easier way to automatically add a BONE to your custom built VM?

Thank you

Adrian

Hi Adrien,.

Currently, there is no workflow that can deploy a virtual model computer.

With regard to your questions:

1. a model is a master copy of a virtual machine that can be used to create and configure virtual machines. Therefore, you can create a template from an existing virtual machine or clone a virtual machine to the model. In the first case, a virtual machine is converted into a model and in this one, the virtual machine exists and a model for the same thing is created. It is useful to create templates for virtual machines if you want to create multiple virtual machines with the same operating system configurations. Please refer to the administration of vSphere guide, section working with models and clones, http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp40_admin_guide.pdf_, for more details.

2. setting the RAM/network settings does not exist when you deploy a model that these characteristics are specific to a virtual computer and the model is not a virtual machine. Therefore, once you deploy the virtual machine, you can reconfigure the virtual computer by changing the RAM and other parameters of n/w. And this will not affect/break VM guest OS.

3. can you be more elaborative when you say "an easier way to automatically add a BONE to your made-to-measure VM?"

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