Deploying a Virtual Appliance
InstallAnywhere 2021
When you are done building your virtual appliance, you can deploy the virtual appliance to a public cloud such as Amazon EC2 or distribute it to your enterprise customers for provisioning within their virtual environments.
You can have InstallAnywhere deploy your virtual appliance automatically at build time. As an alternative, you can have InstallAnywhere deploy your virtual appliance on demand, at any time.
To specify whether your virtual appliance should be deployed automatically at build time:
| 1. | In the Advanced Designer, on the Build page, click Build Appliances. The Build Appliances view opens. |
| 2. | Click the Appliance Configuration tab. |
| 3. | In the Select Appliance Configuration list, select the appliance configuration that you want to configure. |
| 4. | To indicate that you want InstallAnywhere to deploy the virtual appliance to the target hypervisor automatically at build time, select the Deploy this Appliance check box. |
To indicate that you do not want InstallAnywhere to deploy the virtual appliance automatically, clear the Deploy this Appliance check box.
The methods for deploying the virtual appliance on demand vary, depending on which cloud infrastructure your appliance supports. For more information, see:
| • | Deploying a VMware vSphere 5 Virtual Appliance on Demand |
| • | Deploying an Amazon EC2 Virtual Appliance on Demand |