Adding New Property Sets in vRealize Automation 6

Build Profiles in vRA are a great time saver for managing sets of custom properties that share a common purpose.  When you create Build Profiles, you can add sets of custom properties without having to refer to the vRA documentation with Property Sets.

It would be handy to create your own property sets - for example, I'm always looking up the properties needed to envoke the Guest Agent.  I just can't seem to remember them!

Fortunately, you can do this in vRA by importing an XML document with the properties you want to create a custom Property Set.

The format for the XML is -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>

<Doc>
  <CustomProperties>
    <Property Name="propertyname" DefaultValue="somevalue" Encrypted="true_false" PromptUser="true_false"/>
  </CustomProperties>
</Doc>

So, in my case, I created an XML document for Guest Agent properties as follows -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>

<Doc>
  <CustomProperties>
    <Property Name="VirtualMachine.Admin.UseGuestAgent" DefaultValue="true" Encrypted="false" PromptUser="false"/>
<Property Name="VirtualMachine.Admin.CustomizeGuestOSDely" Encrypted="false" PromptUser="false"/>
<Property Name="VirtualMachine.Customize.WaitComplete" DefaultValue="true" Encrypted="false" PromptUser="false"/>
<Property Name="VirtualMachine.Software0.Name" Encrypted="false" PromptUser="false"/>
<Property Name="VirtualMachine.Software0.ScriptPath" Encrypted="false" PromptUser="false"/>
  </CustomProperties>
</Doc>

From the

Infrastructure tab > Blueprints > Build Profiles section in the UI, you can select the Manage Property Sets link to import the XML (scroll down to the bottom of the screen) -

Once imported, your Property Set is ready to use in Build Profiles -