Allowing user to choose the reservation while requesting an Item

[zt1234]

Hello,

The vRA version i'm using is 7.0 and i'm facing some kind of a limitation.

I'm trying to allow user to choose which reservation to use as i'm having 3 reservations (Prod/PreProd/Dev). I've tried to use custom properties to override VirtualMachine.Admin.ClusterName but it seems like vRA is not getting the value inserted by the user from a dropdown list.

From the VMware documentation there is no informations about this.

I was wondering if there is any way to let the user choose which reservationPolicy or which cluster where to provision the machine while he is requesting an Item.

Any ideas?

[willonit]

I would give the datacenter location feature a try. Check out the links below for the documentation. Manipulating reservation policies should work as well but will probably be more work to implement.

1. Add Datacenter Locations

2. Apply a Location to a Compute Resource

3. Enable Users to Select Datacenter Locations‌

[GrantOrchardVMw · Accepted solution]

Try this, I just wrote it up.

Grant

[zt1234]

Hello,

Thanks for both of you. The two solutions worked fine. The second solution is good but the property __reservationPolicyID is not supported by vmware and is hidden.

I've already tried to use it directly but it doesn't work. As suggested by your solution there is a need to put it in Properties Group to force vRA to accept it.

Many thanks for both of you again.

[admin]

Grant,

What's the use of the option "Allow user to see and change storage reservation policies" available in the blueprint storage tab?

[GrantOrchardVMw]

That's for vmdk placement based on policy association with datastores at a compute resource level.

Come in handy if you have (for example) replicated and non-replicated, or some other functional difference at a storage layer that you want to expose to users at request time.

Grant