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nameAdd VM variables

Before you deploy a VM, you can set guest variables to pass user data to your VM. This functionality uses cloud-init and requires appropriate templates. In private cloud, the templates must have the guest setup flag set to cloud init. The administrator can add default variables for the VM template.

Tip

This functionality is available through the API. The platform stores variables in the VirtualMachine "variables" attribute, which is a dictionary of keys and values. See Update “Update a virtual machine machine” in VirtualMachinesResource

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You can modify VM variables before you deploy the VM

Note

Check your cloud providers' documentation for their recommendations about confidential information in variables

To add VM variables:

  1. Go to Virtual datacenters →  and edit a VM that is not deployed

  2. Go to Variables

  3. Enter a Key and Value

    1. The length of these can be up to 255 characters each 

  4. Click Add

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  5. Add more variables as required

  6. To delete a variable click the trash can symbol beside the Key. To edit the Value of a variable, click the pencil edit button beside the Value

  7. To apply changes to variables, and other changes to the VM, click Save

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