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Screenshot: In the Virtual datacenters view, with the V. Datacenters list and the Virtual appliances tab that contains virtual appliance cards, open a virtual appliance

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Virtual appliances

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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Create virtual appliance
  1. Open the cloud Virtual datacenters view. It should open at the Virtual the Virtual appliances tab
  2. Select the virtual datacenter you want to deploy a virtual appliance in
  3. Click the 'Create virtual appliance' button on the main panel of + add button at the bottom of the the Virtual Appliances tab
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  4. Enter the details of the virtual appliance
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  5. Click on a Open or the virtual appliance name Name to enter the virtual appliance editor. A virtual appliance will not do anything unless you add at least one VM template to it
  6. The Virtual machines tab of the Virtual appliance editor is divided into: 
    The Templates panel, which shows Click the Create virtual machine button. You can now select from the VM templates that are ready to be deployed
  7. The Virtual machines panel, where you will be able to design your virtual application and do actions with it
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    Simply double-click templates or drag and drop them into the Virtual machines panela template to create a VM with the default label, or click once and enter your own friendly name for the your VM
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Deploy to launch your VMs

When you deploy a virtual appliance, the platform launches and starts up all the VMs. You can also deploy individual VMs. When you deploy a VM is deployed, the platform copies the system disk images to the hypervisor and uses the VM template definition and user configuration to create the VM.

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To start the virtual appliance, click the Deploy virtual appliance button in the top right-hand corner of the Virtual machines panel.

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This will deploy and start the VMs in the virtual appliance. You can also deploy virtual appliances using the controls that appear when a virtual appliance is selected in the virtual datacenter view.  When the Virtual appliance is deployed, the Deploy button becomes an Undeploy button or a Deploy all VMs button. To destroy all the VMs and all your data on the hard disks, click the Undeploy button.

Screenshot: Deployed VMs in a virtual appliance

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Monitor a VM

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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Monitor a VM

To monitor a VM

  1. Log in to the platform as an enterprise user
  2. Open the configuration of a deployed VM
  3. Mark the checkbox to Retrieve metrics
  4. Select the metrics you wish to retrieve
  5. Save the virtual machine configuration
  6. Open the monitoring view; the metrics should be displayed. You can also filter the display.

You can retrieve and display metrics to monitor the performance of your VM.

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Copy VM disks to create an Instance template 

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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Create an instance template
  1. Open the a virtual appliance
  2. Shut down the VMs you want to copy the disks from to make the instance. For each VM, click the stop or 'power button' and if your VM has the appropriate configuration (VM tools), select the option to shut down the VM. Otherwise, you can connect directly to the VM to perform a graceful shutdown, or select the option to perform a hard power off.  
  3. Click the From the virtual appliance options menu, select Create instance button
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  4. Select one of the VMs to instance
  5. Select the disks
    • If you want to create more instances, select Keep window open
  6. Click Create Instance. The platform will lock the VM to create the instance
    • If you kept the dialog open, click Back to list and create more instances as required, then close the dialog

In private cloud, to use an instance template to create a VM, drag and drop or double-click select the master template that was used to create the VM. The platform will display a list of the instances for you to select from. In public cloud, you can select the instance directly from because it is at the same level as the master templates.

Change the configuration of a deployed VM

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Screenshot: Reconfigure a VM, General Information

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  • Connecting your VMs: If you don’t configure a network interface card (NIC) before you deploy your VM, the platform will configure a default one. You can add NICs to your VMs to add IPs in a private network for communication within the VDC, or another type of network with access outside the VDC, as configured by your administrator.
  • Add hard disks to save your data:  Hard disks on the hypervisor datastore are not persistent and when the user undeploys the virtual appliance, the hard disks are destroyed. To create a hard disk, edit the VM and go to the Storage tab.
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  1. To change VM settings, from the VM options menu, select Edit.
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  2. The VM edit dialog will open. On the General tab, enable remote access, obtain the password and optionally increase CPU and/or RAM. Also make a note of the SSH user and password if they are available.
  3. On the Network tab, open the go to Private tab and select the default_private_network
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  4. Add an IP address, and then drag and drop the IP address or add the "Auto-generated IP" tag to the VM
  5. Remove the original IP address (so as to not have two IP addresses on the same network)
  6. On the Storage tab, add a hard disk by clicking the + Add add button on the right-hand side at at the bottom of the top of the page
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  7. Enter appropriate values for a disk in your environment and click Save.

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You can connect to VMs on most hypervisors and providers using VNC (or RDP) by clicking the eye console button on the VM control panel (on the left of the following screenshot). You may also neeed . To connect in public cloud, before you deploy your VM, you will need to store your SSH public key and in your user account. And in some platforms you will need to enter your telephone number in your user account for connecting to the VM using SSH or RDP. See Edit your user account details

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  1. Obtain the login credentials for the VM, which may be assigned to the VM template.
  2. Select the VM and on the VM control panel, near Remote access, click Show password to obtain the password. (You may also be able to obtain the login credentials from here).
  3. To open a remote access window, click the eye console icon on the left-hand side of the control panel buttons.
  4. Enter the remote access password.
  5. At the VM login prompt, enter the VM login credentials.

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