Creating a Virtual Guest Job

You use a Virtual Guest Job, based on a previously created Virtual Guest Package, to deploy a virtual machine to a target host server.

You can create a Virtual Guest Job for any of the following virtualization platforms

• VMware
• IBM AIX
• Solaris zones
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
• Citrix XenServer

• Microsoft Hyper-V

  Warning

  Note

  To deploy new virtual systems, BMC Server Automation recommends that you have administrator privileges on the host server to which you are deploying the virtual system.

Before you begin

To perform this procedure, your role must have, in addition to the VirtualGuestJob.Create and VirtualGuestJob.Read authorizations, also the VirtualGuestPackage.Create and VirtualGuestPackage.Read authorizations. For information about granting authorizations to roles, see Creating-roles.

To create a Virtual Guest Job

1. Do one of the following:
   • Right-click the Job folder and select New > Virtual Guest Job from the pop-up menu.
   • Right-click the Virtual Guest Package from the Depot and select Deploy Virtual Guest from the pop-up menu.
     The Virtual Guest Job wizard opens.
2. Define the Virtual Guest Job appropriate for your virtualization environment, as described in the following sections:
   • Creating-a-Virtual-Guest-Job-for-VMware-environments
   • Creating-a-Virtual-Guest-Job-for-IBM-environments
   • Creating-a-Virtual-Guest-Job-for-Solaris-environments
   • Creating a Virtual Guest Job for RedHat Enterprise Virtualization environments
   • Creating-a-Virtual-Guest-Job-for-Citrix-XenServer-environments
   • Creating-a-Virtual-Guest-Job-for-Microsoft-Hyper-V-environments
3. Click Finish after completing the last step of the wizard, or click OKto save your revisions to an existing job.