Changing the custom properties of VMware Aria Automation has no affect on the virtual machines

Products

• VMware Aria Suite
• VMware vRealize Automation 8.x

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Not all custom properties of a virtual machine can be changed during the requesting state of a virtual machine.
• Custom properties are not being applied to the virtual machines.

  

Environment

VMware Aria Automation

Cause

When a machine is requested there are a number of things that are preset by VMware Aria Automation (reservation, disk, network) and so changing the custom properties at that stage has no affect on the virtual machine.

Resolution

You can change the custom properties of VMware Aria Automation (formerly known as VMware vRealize Automation) through SDK customizations.

 

For more information, contact SDK Developer Support.

 

To contact SDK Developer Support, see VMware SDK Developer Support Program

 

Here is a list of custom properties that can be added by custom workflows during the machine life cycle states (before BuildingMachine) that can affect the resulting virtual machine:

• HostName
• VirtualMachine.Host.TpmEnabled
• VirtualMachine.Admin.ClusterName
• VirtualMachine.Admin.ForceHost
• VirtualMachine.Admin.ThinProvision
• VirtualMachine.Admin.ApplicationID
• VirtualMachine.Admin.AddOwnerToAdmin
• VirtualMachine.Admin.AllowLogin
• VirtualMachine.Agent.CopyToDisk
• VirtualMachine.Agent.Reboot
• VirtualMachine.Agent.GuiRunOnce
• VirtualMachine.Storage.Name
• VirtualMachine.DiskN.Size
• VirtualMachine.CDROM.Attach
• VirtualMachine.DiskN.Active
• VirtualMachine.DiskN.Letter
• VirtualMachine.DiskN.FS
• VirtualMachine.DiskN.Label
• VirtualMachine.DiskN.Percent
• VirtualMachine.DiskN.VMwareType
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Name
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.MacAddressType
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.MacAddress
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.PortID
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.ProfileName
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Address
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.SubnetMask
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Gateway
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.PrimaryDns
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.SecondaryDns
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.PrimaryWins
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.SecondaryWins
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.DnsSuffix
• VirtualMachine.NetworkN.DnsSearchSuffix
• Cisco.Organization.DN
• Hyperv.Network.Type
• Infrastructure.ResourcePool.Name
• Infrastructure.Admin.DefaultDomain
• Infrastructure.Admin.ADUser
• Infrastructure.Admin.ADPassword
• Image.ISO.Location
• Image.ISO.Name
• Image.ISO.Password
• Image.ISO.UserName
• Image.WIM.Path
• Image.WIM.Name
• Image.WIM.Index
• Image.Network.User
• Image.Network.Password
• Image.Network.Letter
• Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.Execute
• Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.UserName
• Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.Password
• Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.Delete
• Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.MoveToOu
• Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.RenamePrefix
• Users.XXX.AddUser
• VbScript.PreProvisioning.Name
• VbScript.PostProvisioning.Name
• VbScript.UnProvisioning.Name
• VCNS.SecurityGroup.Names.[name]
• VCNS.LoadBalancerEdgePool.Names.[name]
• VDI.Server.Website
• VDI.Server.Name
• VDI.Server.Group
• VDI.ActiveDirectory.Interval
• VDI.ActiveDirectory.Timeout
• VDI.ActiveDirectory.Delay
• VMware.Network.Type
• VMware.SCSI.Type
• VMware.SCSI.Sharing
• VMware.Memory.Reservation
• VMware.VirtualCenter.Folder
• VMware.VirtualCenter.OperatingSystem
• VRM.DataCenter.Policy
• VRM.Software.IdNNNN
• Xen.Platform.Viridian
• Sysprep.Section.Key
  

Additional Information

VMware SDK Developer Support Program