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Use SATA controllers for cloud-init ISO drives

The multi-cloud platform uses a configuration drive to present the cloud-init configuration to a guest VM. By default, the platform uses an IDE controller to attach the ISO drive.

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1. Edit the abiquo.properties file on the Remote Services server

2. Set the following cloudinit.sata property

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   abiquo.esxi.cloudinit.sata=true

   
   

3. Restart the Tomcat server

Use SATA controllers for ISO drives by default

The default controller list for ESXi plugins is now "SCSI, IDE, SATA". 

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1. Edit the abiquo.properties file on the Remote Services server

2. Set the pluginmetadata disk controller properties for VMware and add SATA before IDE.
   (SCSI is not important in the order because it is not used for CD or DVD drives).

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   abiquo.pluginmetadata.{hypervisor_type}.diskControllers=SATA,SCSI,IDE

   For each hypervisor type to configure, set the property value, replacing hypervisor_type in the property key with an appropriate code as follows:

   1. "esx" for ESXi hosts
   2. "vmx_04" for vCenter
   3. "vcenter_cluster" for vCenter clusters

3. Restart the Tomcat server

Disable SATA

If your version of VMware does not support SATA (for example, vCenter 5.1), then you should remove SATA support to prevent errors.

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1. Edit the abiquo.properties file on the Remote Services server

2. Set the pluginmetadata disk controller properties for VMware and remove SATA

   Code Block
   abiquo.pluginmetadata.{hypervisor_type}.diskControllers=IDE,SCSI

   For each hypervisor type to configure, set the property value, replacing hypervisor_type in the property key with one of the following codes:

   1. "esx" for ESXi hosts
   2. "vmx_04" for vCenter
   3. "vcenter_cluster" for vCenter clusters

3. Restart the Tomcat server

Limitations and notes about SATA support

SATA support on guest operating systems is as follows.

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