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Login to vRA - https://<vra-ip/fqdn> using the username you enteredin step 10.

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Click Infrastructure tab.

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Click Continue below the diagram and then scroll down in the menu to your left and click Cloud Accounts. Choose vCenter Server.

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Click New Cloud Account and enter a name, vCenter FQDN and the username and password to be used for connecting to your vCenter Server. Click Validate. If Validate is successful continue and mark "Allow provisioning to these datacenters." Click ADD.

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Time to create a project. Go to Infrastructure - Project. Click New Project. Give your project a name and click CREATE.

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Go to the tab Users and click ADD USERS.

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Search for the user you created during step 10 in the initial deployment.

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Add a Cloud Zone to your project.

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Scroll down and enter MFP-${###} in the Custom Nameing field. More details on custom names: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2022/04/custom-naming-reimagined.html

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Configure Flavor Mappings in Infrastructure - Flavor Mappings.

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And Image Mappings in Infrastructure Image Mappings.

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Infrastructure - Networks. Click on the name of the network where you want your VMs to end up.

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Mark Default for zone and click SAVE.

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Time to create you first Cloud Template. Create it from Blank Canvas or upload my example My example needs a flavor called 'small' and an image named 'windows2019'.

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Cloud template example

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You can now go ahead and hit Deploy and give your Deployment a name.

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Track your deployment in Resources - Deployments.

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Done.