Virtualization Profiles

A Virtualization Profile is a pre-configured combination of the virtual service version’s configuration elements that allow quick creation of a new virtual service for a physical service in “one-click”.

Virtualization Profiles help users with “simple” and repeatable virtualization scenarios which they consider most typical, to avoid going through all the screens and configuration steps described in the previous chapters. Once virtualization profile is created, it can be used to create a new, potentially Active virtual service and/or its new service version with just "one-click” on OK button, which is described below in this chapter.

A Virtualization profile defines one or more default endpoints. When a new virtual service is created, its endpoints will be created from the profile’s Default Inbound Endpoints. Each endpoint defines Sentinet Node it will be created on, base address of the Node which endpoint’s final address will be created from, and the Policy for an endpoint. If desired, endpoints’ final addresses can be later changed using Virtual Service’s Designer. If more than one Default Inbound Endpoint is configured for the same Node and the same Node base address, the final service’s endpoints will get auto-generated unique addresses including endpoint relative address. For example, the first endpoint may get address

https://myserver/mynode/0eaba57c-70fd-4330-a626-89cdf1751056

while the second endpoint for the same Node and the same Node’s base address may get address:

https://myserver/mynode/0eaba57c-70fd-4330-a626-89cdf1751056/a8ee8d3f-5aac-4e4d-90b6-566325401639

where https://myserver/mynode was used as the same base address of the same Node for two different Default Inbound Endpoints.

A Virtualization profile also defines optional configurations for:

1. Selected Access Rule or an Access Rule Group.
2. Selected Processing settings.
3. Selected Monitoring Profile and Monitoring Filters.