HP Insight Orchestration 6.0 User Guide

1. Power off the virtual machine you want to use in the VMM template. It is good practice to cleanly power
off the virtual machine by accessing the virtual machine and performing an operating system shutdown
rather than using a Hypervisor power off command.
If the virtual machine is in a suspended state when you create the template, provisioning will fail during
customization with an error message of “ VM must be powered off for customization ”.
2. Click Deploy→Virtual Machine→Templates→Create Virtual Machine Template. The Step 1: Select
Source Virtual Machine screen appears.
3. Select a virtual machine from the list, and then click Next. The Step 2: Select VM Template Repository
Host screen appears.
4. Select the host that will receive the new VMM template, and then click Next. The Step 3: Specify the
template Name and select VM Template Repository Folder screen appears.
5. In Template Name, enter a name for the template and specify a location for the template.
6. To store the VMM template, in the target folder, select Browse and select a virtual machine host data
store folder.
7. Click Next. The Step 4: Confirm Details screen appears.
8. Click Run Now. The task results appear.
VMM template creation might take from 5 minutes up to 30 minutes to complete.
Excluding disks on a VMHost from the storage pool
To exclude disks on a VMHost from being considered as a data store for a virtual machine, do the following:
1. Log into the CMS.
2. Navigate to the C:\Program Files\HP\Insight Orchestration\conf\hpio.properties
file.
3. In the hpio.properties file, locate the following section:
########################## VOLUMES TO EXCLUDE ##########################
# A semicolon separated list of volumes to be excluded for the list possible
# for allocation. They can be either VMware or HyperV style volumes:
# e.g. /vmfs/volumes/privateStorage; /vmfs/volumes/NotHere
# or C:;Y:;Z:
# An entry may contain one or more "*" characters which represent a wildcard
# and will match any character.
# comparison are case-insensitive.
# For example, if you had two volumes with Ids of "/vmfs/volumes/storage1"
and
# "/vmfs/volumes/storage2" - you could exclude them both with an entry of
# "/vmfs/volumes/storage*".
# Note:
# This exclusion list applies to all hosts. So any host that is found to
have
# a volume that matches an entry on the exclusion list - the volume will
be
# removed and not reported as available to that host.
volume.exclusion.list =
4. To configure a Hyper-V VMHost, add the drive letters you want to exclude, for example, “C:;Y:;Z:”
to the property volume.exclusion.list.
5. To configure a VMware VMHost, add the data store path that you want to exclude, for example,
/vmfs/volumes/privateStorage to the property volume.exclusion.list.
6. Save the file.
7. Restart the Windows Service: HP Insight Orchestration.
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