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Prepare to configure a VM

Abiquo supports hot-add and hot-reconfigure of VMs on ESXi hypervisors. If your VM template and VM operating system support hot-add and hot-reconfigure, you can configure the VM while it is powered on. 

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Privilege: Edit virtual appliance details

After deployment, power off the VM before you reconfigure. Abiquo recommends that you configure the network before you deploy. You can configure captured VMs in the same way as VMs created in Abiquo.

If the virtual appliance is deployed


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Privilege: Edit virtual appliance details

  1. If your VM is deployed

    1. If your VM supports hot-reconfigure (in private cloud on VMware hypervisors, in public cloud, see provider features tables), you may configure when powered on
    2. If your VM does not support hot-reconfigure, select the VM and go to the stop button.
      1. If your guest supports graceful shutdown
    , for example, if you have installed the
      1. with guest tools, select the Shut down option
    . 
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    Otherwise, you can connect directly
      2. Or connect to the VM and
    perform a graceful shutdown. Or if this option is not successful, or
      1. shut it down directly
      2. Or, if your VM is
    already prepared with all services shut down, you can select the Power off option.
  2. When the VM is powered off, the status bar on its icon should turn red and the control panel should only display the lock button and the power on button. 
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  3. From the VM options menu, select Edit to modify the VM configuration. Edit the configuration as described in this manual. Note that some of the VM configuration tabs may or may not be visible, depending on your datacenter configuration and privileges.
      1. prepared for a hard shutdown, select Power off
  4. On the VM icon, select the options menu, and select Edit.Full configuration details are given below
  5. After you make your changes click Save. The cloud platform orchestrator will reconfigure the VM. 
  6. Deploy or power on the VM as appropriate.
VM names and power on order

VMs will be powered on The platform powers on VMs in ascending alphanumeric order. Thus it may be helpful to number your VMs in front of the their names. As an , so to establish a power on sequence, you could use numbers as a prefix to VM friendly names. For example, 1_WebServer will power on before 2_Database. You should remember that although the VMs will be powered on in this orderHowever, there is no guarantee that the machines VMs will finish powering on starting up in the same order.

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titleInfrastructure updates

The periodic infrastructure check will detect direct changes to the VMs (CPU, RAM and hard disk) and register these changes will be reflected in platform statistics and accounting, as well as on the VM general configuration page.

General configuration

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VM general information
VM general information
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Configure Network

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VM network
VM network
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Configure Storage

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VM storage
VM storage
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Configure VM Backups

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VM backups
VM backups

Configure Bootstrap Scripts

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Add VM bootstrap script

Assign Firewalls

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Assign a firewall policy to a VM
Assign a firewall policy to a VM
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Configure Chef

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VM Chef
VM Chef
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Assign Load Balancers

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Edit virtual machine load balancers

Configure Metrics

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Configure Variables

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VM variables
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Display VM Events

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Display VM Events

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