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The Apps Library is where the Administrator Admin will make it easy for the cloud users to use the infrastructure that they are providing. This is where the administrator Admin will provide the VM templates for creating VMs and blueprints for creating virtual appliance (VApp) configurations.
In each private cloud datacenter, the administrator Admin should configure an Apps Library based on an NFS Repository. Then Administrators Admins can upload templates as OVAs, template disks, or ISO disks, for example. The Apps library in public cloud is a cache of template details with links to the original provider templates.
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Abiquo supplies sample templates in a Remote Repository hosted on Amazon S3. Download some of these templates for testing.
Note that by default the Cloud Admin has the privilege to Manage repository (to add and delete remote repositories) and administrators Admins have access to the Apps library and the privilege to Download VM templates from remote repository. |
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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.
In both private and public cloud, Administrators Admins can also create application blueprints called virtual appliance specs by saving the configuration of a group of VMs to the Apps library. The user can then automatically create a new virtual appliance directly from the blueprint.
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