Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 User’s Guide

Virtual Machine OS Settings

Administrator password 

Specifiy OS administrator password that is set on the installed OS.

Confirm administrator password 

Enter the password to confirm the administrator password.

OS Image

Specifies the target repository where the OS image install files are located. The default repositories are ESXi. The additional repositories will be shown if the user created them on the ASM appliance.

Custom Installation OS script

Refers to ASM maintained kickstart scripts or unattend.xml customer specific scripts to be used as a part of unattend OS install.

Virtual Machine Settings

Number of CPUs

Refers to the number of CPUs specified while configuring a Virtual Machine.

Virtual Disk Size (GB) 

Specifies the size to allocate for virtual machine hard disk.

Memory in MB

Refers to the memory in GB specified while configuring a Virtual Machine.

Networks

Specifies the networks that will be associated with the virtual machine.  Any networks must be available on the virtualization host for the VM.

Virtual Machine Settings (Clone Hyper-V Virtual Machine)

Number of CPUs

Refers to the number of CPUs specified while configuring a Virtual Machine.

Virtual Disk Size (GB)

Specifies the size to allocate for virtual machine hard disk.

Memory in MB

Refers to the memory in GB specified while configuring a Virtual Machine.

Networks

Specifies the virtual machine networks to be connected to the virtual machine.

Name

Specifies the name of the virtual machine.

Source

Specifies the name of the source template.

Source Datacenter

Specifies the VMware data center where the source template or virtual machine resides.

Virtual Machine Settings (Clone Hyper-V Virtual Machine)

Description

Refers to the number of CPUs specified while configuring a Virtual Machine.

Name

Specifies the size to allocate for virtual machine hard disk.

Template

Specifies the SCVMM virtual machine template name.

Path

Specifies the storage path where VM clone will be deployed

Networks

Specifies the ASM networks, which will be connected to the virtual machine clone.

Block Dynamic Optimization

If it is True, the block dynamic optimization will be enabled. Possible values: True or False.

Highly Available

Enables whether the VM is a highly available VM

Number of CPUs

Specifies the Number of CPUs to allocate to the virtual machine

Memory in MB

Specifies the memory to allocate to the virtual machine

Start Action

Selects the action to perform automatically when the virtualization server starts.

Start Action

Selects the action to perform when the virtualization server stops.