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The Apps Library is where the cloud administrator will make it easy for the cloud users to use the infrastructure that they are providing. And it is easy for the administrators to upload templates as OVAs, template disks, or ISO disks, for example.
In each private cloud datacenter, the administrator should configure an Apps Library based on an NFS Repository. This is where the administrator will provide the VM templates for creating VMs. For Service Providers the Apps Library enables the provider to offer appliances and applications to their customer. For Enterprises the Apps Library provides a central, controlled image repository so that only approved images can be deployed onto the infrastructure.
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Users can create clones of their VM disks as instance templates. In private cloud instances are stored with the master templates in the Apps library.
Screenshot: A template and clones of VM disks created from the template (instance templates)
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Screenshot: In public cloud the Apps library imports the details of templates from the provider and links to the provider's disk files.
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