Provisioning a bare metal VM

If you created a virtual machine (VM) that was based on a bare metal Virtual Guest Package (VGP), you need to provision it with an OS.

1. Create a system package to define the characteristics of the OS. Typically, you do this by using the BMC Server Automation Console. See Creating a system package.

2. Get the MAC address of the newly created virtual guest by using one of the following commands:   

   • ProvisionDevice getMacAddrFromServerName

   • ProvisionDevice listAllPMDevices
     
     

     Tip

     You can use listAllPMDevices or getMacAddressFromServerName, as per the example below:

     10% blcli -v "bsa" -r "BLAdmins" ProvisionDevice
     listAllPMDevices
     00-50-56-A8-15-52, Device for server::VM_COMMON_DISKLESS_WIN_215,
     00-50-56-A8-15
     -52, PXE
     00-50-56-A8-63-F4, Device for server::VM_COMMON_ADHOC_215,
     00-50-56-A8-63-F4, PXE
     00-50-56-A8-55-CD, Device for server::VM_COMMON_DISKLESS_LINUX_215,
     00-50-56-A8-55-CD, PXE
     00-50-56-A8-42-FF, Device for server::vm-BM-00001_215,
     00-50-56-A8-42-FF, PXE
     00-50-56-A8-5D-F8, Device for server::vm-lin-auto-00001_215,
     00-50-56-A8-5D-F8,
     PXE
     00-50-56-A8-6F-FB, Device for server::vmtest1, 00-50-56-A8-6F-FB,PXE
     
     -------------getting MAC------------------------------------------
     
     
     10% blcli -v "gudi" -r "BLAdmins" ProvisionDevice
     listAllPMDevices | grep vmtest
     1 | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "," } ; { print $3}'
     00-50-56-A8-6F-FB

3. Provision the new VM by first creating a Provision Job using the ProvisionJob createProvisionJob command.

4. The ProvisionJob createProvisionJob command creates the job, but does not run it. To execute the job, use one of the commands in the Job namespace, for example Job execute.

   Note

   Earlier releases supported the Provision provisionDevice command. This command has been deprecated. BMC recommends that you use the ProvisionJob createProvisionJob command instead.