Public cloud libraries can have many thousands of virtual machine VM templates (e.g. AWS has 19,000 AMIs) that are difficult to find and manage. In addition, administrators cannot control the content of public cloud templates. In the Apps library, you can define a cache of details of your approved or certified public cloud templates. And you can customize the templates' representation to make it even easier for cloud users to find the right template.
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The Abiquo Apps library is a collection of virtual machine VM templates that enables users to quickly and easily deploy virtual machinesVMs. To open the Apps library, click the Apps library icon in the main menu bar.
Click on the Public tabradio button. In the Public public list, click on the name of the public cloud region. By default you will see any templates you can deploy within this region in icon view. Click on the List view tab in the top right-hand corner to change the view.
To display the details of a template, move the mouse over the template. A tool tip will display the template information.
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The virtual machine VM templates in the Apps library may be marked with symbols that indicate their purpose. A shared template is marked with an orange user symbol in the lower left corner.
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Filter | Type | Comments |
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ID | Free text | For example, ami-0354b96a |
Name | Free text | Search for this text in each template Name and Description. The search is not case sensitive |
OS type | Selector | Any, Windows or Other |
32 bits | Checkbox | 32-bit images |
64 bits | Checkbox | 64-bit images |
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Click Clear to reset filter values to defaults, which will be to display all local templates.
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Use Templates
In the Virtual datacenters view, click and drag a template into your virtual appliance to create a virtual machine VM with this template.