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The Apps Library is a VM template catalog Service Catalogue where the Admin will make it easy for the cloud users to use work with the infrastructure that they are providing. This is where In the Service Catalogue, the Admin will provide the VM templates for creating VMs and blueprints for creating virtual appliance (VApp) configurations.
In each private cloud datacenter, the Admin should configure an the Apps Library Catalogue based on an NFS Repository. Then Admins can upload templates as OVAs, template disks, or ISO disks, for example. The Apps library Service Catalogue in public cloud for templates is a cache of template details with links to the original provider templates.
For Service Providers the Apps Library Catalogue enables the provider to offer appliances and applications to their customer. For Enterprises the Apps Library Catalogue provides a central, controlled image repository so that only approved images can be deployed onto the infrastructure.
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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, Admins can also create application blueprints called virtual appliance specs by saving the configuration of a group of VMs to the Apps library Catalogue. The user can then automatically create a new virtual appliance directly from the blueprint.
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