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You can create each hardware profile as active or inactive. Inactive profiles will not display in templates or virtual machines. Administrators can recommend active profiles for templates. Users can work with active profiles to create virtual machines.
You can edit all attributes of a hardware profile. The administrator cannot delete a hardware profile if it is in use in a deployed virtual machine. However, the administrator can make the hardware profile inactive. Administrators can activate or deactivate a profile at any time.
Public Cloud
Create a public cloud region and add credentials for an enterprise. Abiquo will automatically retrieve hardware profiles for the public cloud region.
Public cloud hardware profiles can have the same combinations of CPU and RAM, they do not have to be unique combinations of CPU and RAM.
Enterprise
In When editing a tenant, for each allowed datacenter, the administrator enables hardware profile mode, and selects the hardware profiles that will be available to the enterprise. The administrator can select active and inactive profiles, but Abiquo does not display inactive profiles unless they are activated.
In For public cloud providers that use hardware profiles, they are enabled and active by defaultby default the hardware profiles mode is enabled and the profiles are all selected. You cannot disable them hardware profiles mode if the public cloud provider only uses hardware profiles. However, the does not support CPU and RAM settings. The Abiquo administrator can select which profiles that will be available to the enterprise.
Working with hardware profiles
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If the administrator further restricts minimum or maximum CPU and RAM, then a conflict may arise with the hardware profile(s) that the administrator must resolve.
Virtual machines
The user can create virtual machines using the hardware profile and deploy them.
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