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Creating a virtual guest package

Overview

Building and configuring a virtual guest package for BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is a configuration task that applies to

  • bare metal virtual machines (without a source template)
  • VMware virtual machine with a source template

You build the virtual guest package to create the virtual machine and then export it to BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management through the Publish Product Catalog job.

Before you begin

  • If creating a VMware virtual machine with a source template, prepare your virtualization infrastructure by adding a vCenter server, VM templates, and so forth. See "Servers folders" and "Working with virtual environments" in the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation User Guide.
  • Ensure that the virtual guest package for bare-metal virtual machines is assigned a larger disk space amount than what is assigned to the system package. Otherwise, the provisioning fails with the somewhat misleading error message "OS Not Found."
  • Store the virtual guest package in the CSM_Virtual_Guest_Packages subfolder of the Depot folder. Otherwise, the Publish Product Catalog job does not publish the virtual guest package to BMC Cloud Lifecycle Managment.

Additional information

You can review more detailed information about creating a virtual guest package at 1 wiki page with VGP details

Guidelines for building a virtual guest package for BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

  1. In the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Console navigation tree, choose the Depot>CMS_Virtual_Guest_Package folder.
  2. Right-click to display the option menu, and choose New>Virtual Guest Package>VMware to display the New Virtual Guest Package wizard.

  3. Specify the type of virtual guest package in the drop-down list:

    Server type

    Virtual guest package type

    Bare-metal virtual machine

    VMware Virtual Machine

    Virtual machine with template

    VMware Virtual Machine/Template Clone

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  4. Complete the wizard.

  5. Enter the desired configuration settings for your virtual guest package. For example, the bare metal virtual machine configuration shows the virtual machine name but no template:

    vgpwithouttemplate_windows.png

    The virtual machine with template displays the assigned template:

    vgpwithtemplate.png

    Warning

    The virtual machine name and the server name are required. However, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management overrides these values.

  1. Complete the other configuration requirements under the VM Processor/Memory/Disk Settings, VM Network Connections, and Local Properties tabs. If you selected a virtual machine with a template, review and complete the VM Basic Config and VM Complete Settings tabs
Warning

For bare-metal virtual machines. Create multiple virtual guest packages for multiple operating system platforms and when pointing your virtual machines to multiple datastores. Also, you need to create multiple virtual guest packages to provide the following options in the configuration of the virtual machine: vCenter datastore location, default CPU value, and default RAM value.

Next step

Create an application component template.

 

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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 2.1.00