Clone Virtual Machine: Service Details - HPE XP7 Automation Director User Manual

Usage guidelines
• Do not run multiple instances of this service on the same virtual server.
• If you specify HTML tags in UserResponseplugin.dialogText, the permitted tags and attributes
are the same as those for the user-response wait plug-in.
• For VMware vCenter Server 5.0 or later, set the number of cores per socket to 1 on the target virtual
server. If the number of CPUs is changed for a virtual server on which the number of cores per socket
is set to a value other than 1, the virtual server might not start.

Clone Virtual Machine: Service details

The general steps for using this service template to clone a virtual machine are as follows:
1. Obtain the power status of the virtual server to clone.
2. Make sure the power status of the virtual server is OFF.
a. If the power status is not OFF, you can use the User-Response Wait Plug-in to confirm
whether to turn the power OFF.
b. Users with Modify permission can set the e-mail destination/message text, timeout, and display
contents through the User-Response Wait Plug-in.
c. You can use "Shutdown" for the wait-for-user response, to shut the virtual server down. Before
shutting down the virtual server, the system waits the number of seconds specified in the power
status confirmation frequency property vmware.checkPowerStateInterval to confirm that the
power has been turned OFF and repeats that until it is confirmed or repeats according to the
number of times specified in the power status confirmation retries property
vmware.checkPowerStateCount. Adjust the value of each property according to the
environment.
d. If the user selects "Cancel" or if a timeout occurs while waiting for a user response, the server ends
abnormally without operating the virtual server.
3. The virtual server to clone is used to create a clone.
a. When creating a clone, a set of parameters (ESX server, resource pool, data store, and virtual disk
format) can be specified.
b. If no resource pool is specified, the clone is created directly under the destination ESX server
where the clone is created.
c. The maximum length of the virtual server name property vmware.vmName and clone name
property (vmware.cloneName) is 60 characters.
Service Definition Properties
The following table lists the properties shown in the Service Definition window for the Clone Virtual
Machine service template.
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