Overview of the Appliance Provider

The Appliance Provider for BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management provides a template-based, agentless cloning solution. Use this solution for use cases where external third-party agents are not allowed by appliances, such as for security.

This custom provider facilitates the following use cases:

• Provides preprovisioning hooks
• Allows cloning from template
• Assigns IP (private or public)
• Provides postprovisioning hooks to configure the appliance

Typically you can use this provider to provision and configure the following device types:

• Riverbed vSH (WAN Opt)
• Cisco WAA (WAN Opt)
• F5 LTM (Load balancer)
• Riverbed Stingray (Load balancer)
• Citrix NetScaler (Load balancer)
• Citrix Access Gateway (Proxy)
• Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway Virtual Appliance (Proxy)
• Check Point Firewall
• Check Point Multi-Domain Security Management

Key features of version 1.0.00 of the Appliance Provider

Version 1.0.00 of the Appliance Provider contains the following features:

• Registers an Appliance Provider instance
• Starts, stops, and decommissions provisioned VMs
• Modifies memory and CPU values of provisioned VMs
• Specifies multiple hypervisor server details
• Provisions using BMC Atrium Orchestrator and BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Generic Adapter-Generic Provider (GA-GP) framework
• Installs Appliance Provider on BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

Product compatibility

This release integrates with the following product versions:

• BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 3.1, SP 1
• BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio Version 7.6.02.04
• VMware Infrastructure Adapter Version 20.12.04.00.14

Where to go from here

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