1.2 Discovering VM Hosts and Repositories

  1. Ensure that the policies appropriate to the VM technology are configured.

    For more information on the policies, see Section 1.1, Configuring Policies for VM Provisioning Adapters.

  2. Ensure that you have set the correct number of joblet slots for the VM hosts in the policies appropriate to the VM technology.

    For more information on the policies, see Section 1.1, Configuring Policies for VM Provisioning Adapters.

  3. In the Development Client, click Provision > Discover VM Hosts and Repositories.

    The Discover VM Hosts and Repositories dialog box is displayed.

    Discover VM Hosts and Repositories dialog box

  4. Select your provisioning adapter from the drop-down list.

  5. Click OK.

  6. Click Jobs to view the Jobs section in the Development Client and verify that the job has started.

    After your VM host machines are discovered, you can refresh your tree view or wait for the automatic tree refresh to see the VM host machine listed under the provisioning adapter, although no VMs are listed.

    This also discovers:

    • Local repositories for all types of hypervisors.

    • SAN repositories for Xen and ESX.

      To view the discovered repositories, click Repositories, then click xen30 or esx.

    For a list of the VM technologies and supported host and guest operating systems, see Section A.1, Virtual Machine Technologies.

    By default, the VM host is started when you initiate the Discover VM Hosts and Repositories action.