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Basic virtual datacenters concepts
Virtual appliances
A An Abiquo virtual appliance is like a folder that contains a group of one or more workloads (virtual machines (VMs) or containers) that may be related and can be used to provide a service. Each VM is an independent entity but you can deploy all of the VMs in the virtual appliance together. On the Virtual appliances tab, You can manage virtual appliances in the Virtual datacenters view on the Virtual appliances tab of a virtual datacenter in either list view (shown above) or card view.
Virtual machine instances
An Abiquo instance is a copy of the selected disks of a VM at a given time that is stored as a VM template. In private cloud with hypervisors, the platform saves the disks and a copy of the original template definition, unless the VM was captured from outside Abiquo, in which case it saves the configuration of the VM. The platform stores the instance under the master template in the Apps library. In public cloud, the platform saves the disks and the configuration of the VM as an independent template. Remember to enter a new name so you can identify the instance template. In AWS, you can only create an instance (private EBS image) from a VM using an EBS image. In Azure ARM, after you create an instance (snapshot) you cannot power the original VM on again.