Virtual Appliance Creation Workflow

InstallAnywhere 2013

Edition: Virtual appliance support is available in InstallAnywhere Premier Edition with Cloud Pack.

When using InstallAnywhere to create a virtual appliance for either VMware vSphere or Amazon EC2, you need to perform the steps listed in the following topics:

Creating a VMware vSphere 5 Virtual Appliance
Creating an Amazon EC2 Virtual Appliance

The following table lists the main steps in the virtual appliance creation workflow and provides links to topics that provide additional information on how to perform each step.

Virtual Appliance Creation Workflow

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Step

Related Topics

1.  

Open an InstallAnywhere Project

Open an existing InstallAnywhere project that contains the virtual application files and an installer.

Opening an Existing Project
2.  

Choose a VM Template

Choose a VM template on the VM Configuration tab of the Build Appliances view on the Build page. VM templates are listed here only if you have obtained them and copied them to the $IA_HOME$/resource/baseline_vms directory.

Obtaining VM Templates for Virtual Appliances
Downloading VM Templates
Creating Custom VM Templates
3.  

Customize the Virtual Appliance Configuration

Create an appliance configuration and customize its settings on the Appliance Configuration and VM Configuration tabs of the Build Appliances view on the Build page.

Creating a VMware vSphere 5 Virtual Appliance
Configuring the Appropriate Appliance Output and Type for VMware-Based Virtual Appliances
Creating an Amazon EC2 Virtual Appliance
Support for Elastic Block Store (EBS) for Amazon
About EC2 and S3 Regions of Deployment for Amazon
Working with Virtual Appliance Configurations
4.  

Add Custom Scripts

Using Custom Boot and Login Scripts for a Virtual Appliance
5.  

Add Installers

Adding Installers to Your Virtual Appliance
6.  

Add OS Packages

Installing Operating System Packages for a Virtual Appliance
7.  

Build the Virtual Appliance

Building a Virtual Appliance
8.  

Deploy the Virtual Appliance

Deploying a VMware vSphere 5 Virtual Appliance on Demand
Deploying an Amazon EC2 Virtual Appliance on Demand