Provisioning and De-provisioning VMs with Registration in NIOS

After you deployed the Infoblox IPAM Plug-In for VMware, you can submit requests for VM provisioning and deprovisioning using vRealize Automation. When you provision a VM, the specified host record, DNS records, or DHCP records are registered in NIOS. When you de-provision the VM previously registered in NIOS using the Infoblox IPAM Plug-In, the records are removed from NIOS. 

Provisioning a VM

To create a VM with Infoblox IPAM properties:

1. In vRealize Automation, go to the Catalog tab.
2. Click Request for the appropriate pre-configured service.
3. Select the machine defined in the blueprint.
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4. Specify the general details for the VM.

5. Specify the storage details for the VM.

6. In the Properties tab, you can either use the displayed Infoblox IPAM properties as is or modify them by selecting a property and clicking Edit.
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   For properties description, see xxx. For which properties to set to TRUE and FALSE when requesting a VM with specific records, see xxx. For information about customizing the Infoblox IPAM properties, see Customizing the Property Group.

7. Click Submit.

8. Click OK.

To see the execution information for the request, go to the Requests tab in vRealize Automation and select the request.

In vRealize Orchestrator, you can go to the Infoblox vRA workflows section and see that the Allocate workflow is triggered and displays its execution information in the Logs tab. See xxx Then you can go to the Infoblox Grid Manager, select Data Management –> IPAM Home and see that the IP address is registered.

De-provisioning a VM

To de-provision a VM:

1. In vRealize Automation, go to Items –> Deployments.
2. Select the required VM.
3. Click Destroy.

When you destroy a VM, the Release workflow of the Infoblox IPAM Plug-In is called to remove the machine records from NIOS. See xxx