Template name: This is the display name that Business Service Owners see when selecting from the list of workload templates. You should use a naming scheme that makes sense to the users who will consume the template.

Costs: You can add one-time setup costs and monthly software license costs to the template. The costs are applied to all workloads created from the template.

VM template: This is the VM template that is used to create the workloads. It is located in one of the Cloud Manager Orchestration repositories.

Custom VM template settings: The VM template includes default resource settings for CPUs, memory, networks (NICs), and disk space. You can increase or decrease the settings to customize the workload template. For example, if the VM template is configured with one CPU, you can increase the CPU setting to two CPUs. When a workload is created from the workload template, the resulting VM is configured with two CPUs rather than one.

Windows or Linux settings: If the VM template’s operating system is Windows, the template includes Windows settings. If the operating system is Linux, the template includes Linux settings. You can pre-populate any settings that you want to be the same for all workloads created from the template. For example, if you want all workloads to use the same password for the local Administrator account, you could pre-populate that setting. See the next section, Pre-Populated Template Settings.

Associations: (Optional) After they are created, you can associate the workload template with one or more business groups or organizations.