Connection Profile (VMware)

Defines the VMware connection profile

Category

Determines the task type to perform

Virtual machine name full path

Defines the name and location of the VM where a task is performed

Task

Determines which task is performed on the VM

New Virtual Machine Name

Defines the clone hostname of the new VM

Host

Determines which host the VM is connected

Resource Pool

Determines which resource pool the VM is connected

Datastore

Determines which data source the VM is connected

Customization Specification

Determines a specific customization that is applied to this VM after it is created

Post Action

Determines to power on or mark as template after you clone a VM

Power State

Determines which priority level the VM server applies to the migrate task

Power State

Determines the power state that the VM needs be set at to perform the configuration task.

Snapshot Name

Defines the name of the snapshot that you want to perform a snapshot task

Snapshot Description

Describes details about the snapshot

Snapshot the virtual machine's memory

Determines whether to take a snapshot of the VM’s memory

Ignore task if already in desired power state

Determines whether to ignore the task if already in the required power state

Quiesce guest file system

Pauses the running processes on the VM so that file system contents are in a known consistent state when the snapshot is taken. This applies only to VMs that are powered on.

Edit Device Settings

Determines configuration settings for CPUs, memory and disk size

Virtual Device Name

Defines the name of the virtual hard disk

Memory Size

Determines the number of MB or GB in memory that are allotted to the VM

Provisioned Size

Determines the number of MB, GB, or TB that are provisioned for the VM disk

Disk Unit

Determines whether the disk size is in MB, GB, or TB

Mem Unit

Determines whether the memory size is in MB or GB