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Hardware profiles are a convenient way of displaying CPU and RAM values that enable you to simplify the configuration of VMs for your users. They also enable you to control available hardware configurations and to recommend suitable hardware configurations for VM templates. And you can restrict users to a set of recommended configurations for a template.
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In private cloud, the hardware profile can be dynamic for CPU and/or RAM, which means that the user can enter these values. Users can also enter cores per socket.
To display hardware profiles for private cloud:
- Go to Infrastructure → Private → select Datacenter → servers View → Hardware profiles
Manage hardware profiles with the API
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- For dynamic hardware profiles, the platform will also use the prices for CPU and RAM.
- For details of how to create cost codes pricing, see Pricing View#Manage cost codes to create the cost codes. Then see Pricing View#Create a new pricing model, to set cost code prices.
- For details of how to set prices for individual hardware profiles, see Pricing View#Create a new pricing model, to set hardware profile prices for each datacenter or public cloud region.
Enable users to work with hardware profiles
After you have prepared hardware profiles, enable users work with them, as follows:
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