Getting started with provisioning

The topics in this section describe how to get started using TrueSight Server Automation to provision and configure systems in your environment.

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BMC Education Services provide Foundation courses covering the topics discussed in the walkthroughs available in this section. The education classes discuss when and why to make use of various features as well as the “how-to”. If you are interested in looking deeper into these topics, we recommend that you check out the Server Automation education offerings at TrueSight Server Automation Training, in particular, the Foundation - Part 3 course.

This section includes the following topics:

Topic

What is it about?

Provides some background and rationale for using TrueSight Server Automation to provision and configure systems in your environment.

Walks you through the process of provisioning a Microsoft Windows 2012 on a bare metal machine.

Walks you through the process of creating a system package for a Linux operating system and provisioned that image to a bare metal system.

Walks you through the process of creating a new VM based on an existing VM template by creating a VGP in the Depot workspace. You will then use the VGJ to deploy a new VM on the vCenter server (which must be a TrueSight Server Automation managed server).

Walks you through the process of provisioning a virtual machine (VM) from a Hyper-V Generation 2 template.

Related topic in TrueSight Server Automation Portal

l If you have installed TrueSight Server Automation Portal, the following topic also describes how to get started with provisioning:

Topic

What is it about?

Walks you through the process of using the simplified interface in TrueSight Server Automation Portal to provision a virtual machine (VM).

 

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