Users Guide

Building Template Overview.........................................................................................................29
Building and Publishing Template................................................................................................30
Importing Template...................................................................................................................... 30
Editing Template............................................................................................................................31
Viewing Template Details..............................................................................................................31
Deleting Template......................................................................................................................... 31
Cloning Template.......................................................................................................................... 31
Deploy Service...............................................................................................................................32
Decommissioning Services Provisioned by ASM......................................................................... 32
Component Types.........................................................................................................................33
Component Combinations in Templates.....................................................................................47
Sample Templates...............................................................................................................................48
Template – Deploy Citrix XenDesktop for 500 Users ................................................................ 48
Template – Deploy OS to Hard Drive.......................................................................................... 50
Template – Deploy Physical Server and Virtual Machine............................................................ 51
Template – Deploy VMs to Cluster.............................................................................................. 52
Template – Install ESXi to SD card with FC Storage....................................................................53
Template – Install ESXi to SD Card with iSCSI Storage............................................................... 54
Template – Deploy Hyper-V Host with iSCSI Storage................................................................ 55
Template – Deploy Hyper-V Cluster with iSCSI Storage.............................................................57
Template – Deploy Hyper-V Cluster with Fibre Channel Storage to SCVMM........................... 59
Template – Deploy VMWare Cluster with NetApp Storage........................................................60
Template – Boot from Fibre Channel SAN.................................................................................. 62
Template – Boot from iSCSI SAN.................................................................................................63
Template – Deploy Virtual Machine Template Clone on Hyper-V Cluster................................63
Template – Deploy Virtual Machine Template Clone on VMWare Cluster................................64
Template – Deploy SQL Server 2012 .......................................................................................... 65
Additional Template Information........................................................................................................67
Deploying ESXi Cluster for SAN Applications...............................................................................67
7 Resources.............................................................................................................70
Understanding All Resources Tab...................................................................................................... 70
Discovery Overview....................................................................................................................... 71
Removing Resources.....................................................................................................................73
Updating Resource Inventory ...................................................................................................... 73
Managing and Unmanaging Resources........................................................................................73
Viewing Resource Details..............................................................................................................73
Understanding Server Pools................................................................................................................77
Creating Server Pool......................................................................................................................77
Editing Server Pool........................................................................................................................ 78
Deleting Server Pool......................................................................................................................78