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Overview of server provisioning

This topic provides a high-level view of the tasks that you perform to prepare and provision the following server types: physical server, bare-metal virtual machine, and virtual machine with template.

You perform the preparatory tasks in BMC Server Automation, making the server and related packages available to BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. You prepare and initiate the server provisioning request in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

For more information, see the following sections:

 

Warning

Note

BMC Atrium Orchestrator and BMC Network Automation are applications that support the server provisioning process. You do not directly interact with them when completing the core provisioning tasks.

OS support

Physical servers, bare-metal virtual machines (VMs), and VMs with templates support a variety of platforms as guest operating systems. For a complete list, see Target-platforms-for-provisioning.

Warning

Note

The BOOT_IMAGE_ID is not available out-of-the-box. If it is required, you must manually enter an appropriate value for the BOOT_IMAGE_ID of the PXE device in the Properties tab of the Property Dictionary. You must also ensure that all Physical Targets belonging to the same BOOT_IMAGE_ID are part of single compute pool.

Overview of preparatory tasks in BMC Server Automation

Before you can provision physical servers, bare-metal VMs, and VMs with templates in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, you must first configure them in BMC Server Automation.

The configuration processes for the different server types share common procedures in BMC Server Automation. However, the configuration process of each server type does have its distinct steps and unique properties. The following diagram outlines the main procedures in the configuration process of each server type.

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Overview of provisioning tasks in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

After you publish the OS and virtual guest packages from BMC Server Automation to BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, you begin the tasks to prepare and initiate the server provisioning request. The following diagram outlines the main procedures of the server provisioning request.

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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 3.1