Pre-Check For Os Deployment On Virtual Machine: Service Details - HPE XP7 Automation Director User Manual

Pre-check for OS Deployment on Virtual Machine: Service details

The general steps for using this service template to perform a precheck for an OS deployment on a
Virtual Machine are as follows:
1. Checks whether a connection can be established from the vCenter control server to a vCenter server.
2. Checks whether a virtual server can be created from the specified template. The following items are
checked:
a. Whether the specified template is registered in the vCenter server. If the template is not registered
in the vCenter server, the result is false.
b. Whether the specified ESX server is registered to the vCenter server. If the ESX server is not
registered in the vCenter server, the result is false.
c. Whether the specified data store is registered in the ESX server. If the data store is not registered
in the ESX server, the result is false.
d. Whether the data store on the specified ESX server has enough free space to expand the template.
If the template capacity is greater than the free space on the data store, the result is false. The
template capacity used for this comparison is the capacity of provisioned storage of the virtual disk
specified in the template.
e. Whether the specified resource pool (resource pool, cluster, vApp) is registered in the vCenter
server. If the resource pool is not registered in the vCenter server, the result is false.
f. Whether the specified virtual server name is already in use in the vCenter server. If the virtual
server name is already in use in the vCenter server, the result is false.
3. Sends an ICMP echo request to the specified IP address to determine whether there is a response.
- If there is no response, the IP address is treated as being available (not in use).
- If there is a response, the IP address is treated as being unavailable (already in use).
Service Definition Properties
The following table lists the properties visible in the Service Definition window for the Pre-check for OS
Deployment on Virtual Machine service template.
Property Key
vmware.targetHost
vmware.vCenterServerN
ame
Property Name
Host name of VMware
vCenter control server
VMware vCenter server
name
Pre-check for OS Deployment on Virtual Machine: Service details
Description
Specify the host name or
IP address of the server
(a server with vSphere
PowerCLI installed) that
will be used to control
VMware vCenter. You
cannot specify an IPv6
address.
Specify the host name or
IP address of the
VMware vCenter server.
You cannot specify an
IPv6 address.
Required or optional
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