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There is a new tab in Infrastructure view called Hardware Profiles. This tab is available in private cloud datacenters and public cloud regions.
To create a hardware profile, you must supply a unique name, and a unique combination of CPU and RAM.
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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.
Public Cloud
Create a public cloud region and add credentials for an enterprise. Abiquo will automatically retrieve hardware profiles for the public cloud region.
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In each allowed datacenter, the administrator enables hardware profile mode, and selects the hardware profiles that will be available to the enterprise can use.. The administrator can select active and inactive profiles, but Abiquo does not display inactive profiles.
In public cloud , providers that use hardware profiles, they are enabled and active by default. You cannot disable them if the public cloud provider only allows uses hardware profiles. After you add credentials, you can obtain hardware profiles.However, the administrator can select profiles that will be available to the enterprise.
Working with hardware profiles
Only Abiquo only displays active hardware profiles are shown. Active hardware profiles are the ones the administrator selected for the that are available to the enterprise in the datacenter.The administrator cannot disable a hardware profile if it is in use in a virtual machine?location.
Editing templates
From the list of active hardware profiles, the administrator can select recommended hardware profiles for a template.
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