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Chapter 7. Creating the pattern and
environment profiles
This chapter describes the creation of a pre-production pattern and a pre-production
environment profile using the images and script packages that we built in Chapter 6,
“Creating and customizing virtual images” on page 107.
Environment profiles can provide several benefits when deploying patterns. In this chapter,
we use environment profiles to control the placement of virtual machines on separate cloud
groups and the assignment of IP addresses to virtual machines.
This chapter includes the following topics:
7.1, “Creating a patter