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Creating a new VMware VM in ScriptRunner

Creating a VMware virtual machine is a core functionality for VMware. Standardized virtual machines are rolled out by purpose in many organisations.

Additionally, various infrastructure and security settings need to be considered and, depending on enterprise standards, set properly.

As a result, manually creating and maintaining VMs quickly becomes time-consuming and tedious.

Creating a new VM in VMware requires administrative rights in the respective VMware vCenter. That is why this task has been almost exclusively in the hands of IT administrators.

With PowerShell and the ScriptRunner software platform, you can effortlessly standardize the creation of new VMware. Plus, you can easily delegate the task to your help desk teams and departments via the ScriptRunner Portal.

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Your Requirements

  • Standardize the VMware VM creation process.
  • Securely delegate VM creation without giving user privileges in VMware vCenter Server.
  • Enforce security and governance policies.
  • Specify a naming scheme for newly created VMs.
  • Predefine available operating systems.
  • Predefine available hosts and datastores.
  • Preset network settings.
  • Restrict VM size selection.

Our Solution

  • Using the VMware PowerCLI module and the free PowerShell scripts in the ScriptRunner ActionPack for VMware, creating new VMware VMs is easily standardized.
  • Predefined parameters, invisible to users, ensure that VMs can only be created on certain VMware ESXi Hosts and specific datastores.
  • Via ScriptRunner Queries, users are given the option to select the VMware Datastores and VMware ESXi Hosts. When using scheduled queries, the loading time can be reduced dramatically. However, the VM size can also be fixed. The same applies to the selectable operating systems.

Your Benefit

  • Consistent creation of new VMware virtual Maschines across the enterprise.
  • Creation can be easily delegated to help desk teams and business departments because ScriptRunner users don’t need PowerShell expertise, administrative privileges, or access to the VMware vCenter Server.
  • Access to ScriptRunner Actions can be defined on a per-user basis, customized for specific VM requirements.
  • Customizations are simple, centralized and fast without disrupting day-to-day operations.
  • Governance policies are always automatically met.

Any questions?

Our product experts will be happy to support you in the implementation of your individual use cases and answer your questions.
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