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Manage virtual appliance specs in the Apps library

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To manage specs,

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Display virtual appliance specs in the Apps
libriary go to the Virtual appliance specs tab.

To display details of a VApp spec, click on the VApp Spec icon. To display the details of a VApp spec's Versions, click the options button on the icon and select Versions. The Manage spec versions dialog will open. Click on a Version to display its details.

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Privilege: Manage virtual appliance specs, Consume virtual appliance specs

Screenshot: Virtual appliance specs tab and Details panel

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Screenshot: Virtual appliance spec version dialog

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Edit a virtual appliance spec

When you edit a virtual appliance spec in the Apps library, you can change the Name, Description and Icon.

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Display virtual appliance specs in the Apps library

Edit a virtual appliance spec details

To modify a VApp spec, on its icon click from the options menu, and select Edit

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GUI Edit spec General information
GUI Edit spec General information

Share virtual appliance specs with other tenants

A new VApp spec is always available to the enterprise that created it and to users of any other tenants in its scopes.

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Privilege: Allow user to switch enterprises

To define the tenants who can work with the spec, edit the spec and go to the Scopes tab. Assign your own scope and/or child scope(s) beneath your scope in the hierarchy.

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Share a spec with multiple tenants
Share a spec with multiple tenants

Define the locations where users can work with a spec

To define

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Define locations where a spec can be used
, select allowed locations. Users of enterprises that are allowed to access a location can work with the specs allowed in the location.

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To manage allowed locations:

  1. Go to Apps library → Virtual appliance specs
  2. Select the spec, click the Options button, and select Edit
  3. Go to Locations → select locations
    1. If the spec should be available in all current and future locations, select Use all locations.
    2. To restrict the spec to a group of current locations:
      1. Clear the Use all locations checkbox
      2. Select the Locations where the spec will be available for use
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  • If another user has already assigned locations that you cannot administer and access, then you can maintain or deselect these locations.
  • If you deselect locations that you cannot administer or acccess, you cannot add them again

When designing a virtual appliance for use in more than one location, please consider the following:

  • Support for multiple disks in the provider
  • Public networks in private cloud will be translated to floating IPs in public cloud and vice versa
  • A range of IP addresses may be reserved by an SDN system or cloud provider
  • The number of NICs allowed or required per VM may vary
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Define locations where a spec can be used

Define the version of a spec to use

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Define the version of a spec to use
Define the version of a spec to use

Delete virtual appliance specs

You can delete spec versions or the entire spec. When you delete a virtual appliance spec, the platform will also delete all its versions, even shared versions. When you delete an enterprise, the platform will delete all its specs, even shared specs and shared versions.

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