Deploy Your Workloads

To deploy your workloads, you must first connect to vCenter through VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Console and then add pre-configured virtual machines or vApps to your

vCenter Server

by deploying an OVF or OVA template from a local file system or from a URL.

Some of the pages in the

Deploy OVF Template

wizard appear only if the OVF template that you deploy requires additional customization, contains deployment options, or has one or multiple vService dependencies.

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Console. See connect to vCenter through VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Console.

Right-click any inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine, such as a data center, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host, and select

Deploy OVF Template

The

Deploy OVF Template

wizard opens.

On the

Select an OVF template

page, specify the location of the source OVF or OVA template and click

Option	Action
URL	Type a URL to an OVF or OVA template located on the Internet. Supported URL sources are HTTP and HTTPS. Example: Search for VMware Photon and click Photon OS - VMware® Open Source Software in an Internet search engine. Download the OVA with virtual hardware v11 template from the Photon Open Source Program Office page.
Local file	Click Browse and select all the files associated with an OVF template or OVA file. This includes files such as .ovf , .vmdk , etc. If you do not select all the required files, a warning message displays.

On the

Select a name and folder

page, enter a unique name for the virtual machine or vApp, select a deployment location, and click

The default name for the virtual machine is the same as the name of the selected OVF or OVA template. If you change the default name, choose a name that is unique within each

vCenter Server

virtual machine folder.

The default deployment location for the virtual machine is the inventory object where you started the wizard.

On the

Select a compute resource

page, select a resource where to run the deployed VM template, and click

On the

Review details

page, verify the OVF or OVA template details and click

Option	Description
Publisher	Publisher of the OVF or OVA template, if a certificate included in the OVF or OVA template file specifies a publisher.
Download size	Size of the OVF or OVA file.
Size on disk	Size on disk after you deploy the OVF or OVA template.

On the

Configuration

page, select a deployment configuration and click

On the

Select storage

page, define where and how to store the files for the deployed OVF or OVA template.

Select the disk format for the virtual machine virtual disks.

Format	Description
Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed	Creates a virtual disk in a default thick format. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated when the virtual disk is created. Data remaining on the physical device is not erased during creation, but is zeroed out later, on demand, on first write from the virtual machine.
Thick Provision Eager Zeroed	A type of thick virtual disk that supports clustering features such as Fault tolerance. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated at creation time. In contrast to the flat file format ( -flat.vmdk ), the data remaining on the physical device is zeroed out when the virtual disk is created. It might take much longer to create disks in this format than to create other types of disks.
Thin Provision	Use this format to save storage space. For the thin disk, you provision as much datastore space as the disk requires based on the value that you enter for the disk size. However, the thin disk starts small and at first, uses only as much datastore space as the disk needs for its initial operations.

Select a VM Storage Policy.

This option is available only if storage policies are enabled on the destination resource.

Enable the

Show datastores from Storage DRS clusters

check box to choose individual datastores from Storage DRS clusters for the initial placement of the virtual machine.

Select a datastore to store the deployed OVF or OVA template.

The configuration file and virtual disk files are stored on the datastore. Select a datastore large enough to accommodate the virtual machine or vApp and all associated virtual disk files.

If you want to use the API calls to deploy an OVF template that contains vPMem hard disks and that has been exported from a content library, consult https://kb.vmware.com/kb/52370.

On the

Select networks

page, select a source network and map it to a destination network. Click

The Source Network column lists all networks that are defined in the OVF or OVA template.

On the

Customize template

page, customize the deployment properties of the OVF template and click

On the

vService bindings

page, select a binding service provider and click

On the

Ready to complete

page, review the page and click

Finish

A new task for creating the virtual machine appears in the Recent Tasks pane. After the task finishes, the new virtual machine is created on the selected resource.

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