About Virtual Machine Provisioning Using ISO Images
In Cisco UCS Director you can provision new VMs using ISO images. Using ISO images provides more flexibility over the other methods in provisioning new VMs and installing guest operating systems.
If you provision new VMs using an ISO image, the VMs are provisioned with an ISO image that resides in a datastore. As a general convention, the datastores are exclusively used for storing ISO images, for better sharing across the environment, for centralized access, and for better file organization.
In Cisco UCS Director, you must identify and tag ISO hosting datastores, so that Cisco UCS Director can perform a deep inventory of the datastore and obtain ISO file information that resides in the datastore. Once you have a list of the ISO files, you must create ISO mapping policies to include one or more ISOs. Finally, the ISO mapping policy must be selected in the VDC computing policy to allow VM provisioning with ISO images.
In Cisco UCS Director, you can provision VMs using ISO images with the End User Portal based on the published Catalogs.
Cisco UCS Director supports collection of ISO images at any level in the datastore. The ISO images are visible when they are uploaded to any sub-folders.
Inventory containing ISO images in VSAN datastores are only supported when the ISO images are placed in any sub-folder under the root directory.
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Folders that begin with a dot (.) are excluded from the ISO image inventory. |
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To mount a Windows 2016 or Windows 10 ISO image on a VM using the Provision new VM for ISO image mounting option, you have to perform the following additional steps:
For information on these steps, see Creating a Template for VM Provisioning. |