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  • 1.  Create empty VM from Aria Automation Assembler

    Posted Oct 16, 2024 10:44 AM
    Hello everyone,
    I am migrating the service catalog from vRA7 to Aria Automation 8.16.
    One of the vRA7 services creates an empty VM with the following build information:
    - Blueprint type: Server
    - Action: Create
    - Provisioning workflow: BasicVmWorkflow
    I am having problems migrating this service to Aria Automation, because in the cloud template it is not possible to define a Cloud.vSphere.Machine object with the empty image property.
     
    As a possible solution, I have created an empty VM template in vCenter, which is the one I use as image in the cloud template. However, it takes more than 20 minutes to deploy the VM, as it waits for a long time in the CREATE_IN_PROGRESS stage of the Cloud.vSphere.Machine object.
     
    Is there any way to do this in a more efficient way?
     
    Greetings.
     
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  • 2.  RE: Create empty VM from Aria Automation Assembler

    Posted Oct 17, 2024 01:50 PM

    You can utilize in Orchestrator under Library/vCenter/Virtual Machine management/Basic and use either Create custom virtual machine workflow or Create simple virtual machine workflow. Duplicate the workflow and modify to your needs then publish to service broker via new content source choosing Orchestrator.

    Good Luck!


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  • 3.  RE: Create empty VM from Aria Automation Assembler

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 18, 2024 10:27 AM

    Use the awaitIp special property on your VM resource in the cloud template if you don't expect an IP to be reported by VM tools.

    https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/8.18/Using-Automation-Assembler/GUID-7AAE0B88-1D02-4179-B3A3-E679BD8F78B4.html


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  • 4.  RE: Create empty VM from Aria Automation Assembler

    Posted Oct 18, 2024 12:16 PM

    How can you deploy a empty VM? I have an error about the customization of the empty VM... Ofcourse that is not possible to do..


    Customization of the guest operating system is not supported due to the given reason: Tools is not installed in the GuestOS. Please install the latest version of open-vm-tools or VMware Tools to enable GuestCustomization.


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  • 5.  RE: Create empty VM from Aria Automation Assembler

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 18, 2024 02:00 PM

    Add the following to the cloud template if you do not want to customize the guest:

    customizeGuestOs: false


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