VMware template onboarding to Production

There are two ways to have your template onboarded to production

1. By Providing the vmtemplateid name from your Template to collection environment. (Follow this step if you are making updates from a reservation)
2. By Providing template name in folder templates-Shared (Applicable ONLY to Authors that completed Skytap migrations and have access to templates-shared folder in vcenter or Template builder access)

All templates need to be onboarded correctly to ensure user environment provisioning do not fail. Follow steps listed below.

• VMware template onboarding from "Template to collection"
• VMware template onboarding from "templates-shared"

VMware template onboarding from "Template to collection":

Now that your Template has been successfully created it needs to be onboarded before you can update your environment configuration setting follow directions to get this completed.

Send a VMware "template onboarding request" to the TechZone Support Team Complete a webform
 

Subject: VMware "template copy/onboarding request"

1. Collection url/ name:
2. Environment name:
3. vmtemplateid:
    

Note: To obtain 'vmtemplateid':

• click edit on the top right of your collection
• scroll to Environment,
• click on edit environment - scroll to Terraform Variables Overriding, under name 'vmtemplateid' column new value you will find the associated 'vmtemplateid

It takes 2 to 3 business days to complete a template copy/onboarding request. You will be notified by the support agent when the template is available in all TechZone supported regions.

Next Steps: Update your environment configuration settings and Terraform Variables Overriding.

• Settings
  • Preferred
    Account Pool: itzmware
Cloud Account: Any
Geo: Select preferred geo (Americas,Europe or AP)
Region: Any
Datacenter: Any
Click the + sign to enter your entry
Repeat steps to add additional Geo's
     
  • Alternative
Account Pool: itzmware
Cloud Account: Select preferred cloud account (itzvmware,itzsquad, itzvmware-ocpgym,itzv2...)
Geo: Select preferred geo (Americas,Europe or AP)
Region: Select preferred region (us-east,eu-de, jp-tok ... ) Datacenter: Select preferred datacenter (wdc04, fra04, tok02 ...)
Click the + sign to enter your entry
Repeat steps to add additional entries
     

Note: this is an environment settings quick steps, click on link for environment definition best practice, how dynamic workload placement work and how techzone decides where to place workload

Terraform Variables Overriding

• vmtemplatefolder: templates-user
• vmtemplateid: leave as is
• Set the status to "Enabled"
• Save the environment on your collection and wait for the confirmation notification that the save was successful.
• Save the collection and wait for the confirmation notification that the save was successful.
   

VMware template onboarding from "templates-shared"
Send a VMware "template onboarding request" to the TechZone Support Team Complete a webform

Subject: VMware "template copy/onboarding request"

1. Collection url/ name:
2. Environment name:
3. Template name in Folder templates-shared
4. Datacenter name: example Dal10 or wdc04

It takes 2 to 3 business days to complete a template copy/onboarding request. You will be notified by the support agent when the template is available in all TechZone supported regions.

Next Steps: Update your environment configuration settings and Terraform Variables Overriding

• Settings

  • Preferred
Account Pool: itzmware
Cloud Account: Any
Geo: Select preferred geo (Americas,Europe or AP)
Region: Any Datacenter: Any
Click the + sign to enter your entry Repeat steps to add additional Geo's

  • Alternative
    Account Pool: itzmware
Cloud Account: Select preferred cloud account (itzvmware,itzsquad, itzvmware-ocpgym,itzv2...)
Geo: Select preferred geo (Americas,Europe or AP)
Region: Select preferred region (us-east,eu-de, jp-tok ... )
Datacenter: Select preferred datacenter (wdc04, fra04, tok02 ...)
Click the + sign to enter your entry
Repeat steps to add additional entries

Note: this is an environment settings quick steps, click on link for environment definition best practice, how dynamic workload placement work and how techzone decides where to place workload
 

Terraform Variables Overriding:

• These variables work on a heirarchy of folders for vCenter
  • vm_template_folder > vm_template_id > vm_map_string
  • I.e. a template located in templates/TestFolder/TestTemplate would set the vm_template_folder as "templates", vm_template_id as "TestFolder" and the vm_map_string would be built using "TestTemplate"
  • For more information on building a map string, please refer to this runbook
• Set the status to "Enabled"
• Save the environment on your collection and wait for the confirmation notification that the save was successful.
• Save the collection and wait for the confirmation notification that the save was successful.

NOTES: Only templates onboarded by the IBM Technology Zone Support Team is accepted as a Production Templates.

Production Templates are admin owned VMs for environments defined within an enabled collection and stored in folder named templates (following steps for Template-shared using Template Builder) or templates-user (following steps for Template to collection)