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To create a hardware profile for a datacenter, you must supply a unique name, and a unique combination of CPU and RAM.
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Create a public cloud region and add credentials for an enterprise. Abiquo will automatically retrieve hardware profiles for the public cloud region and enable them by default.
Public cloud hardware profiles can have the same combinations of CPU and RAM, they do not have to be unique.
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When editing a tenant, for each allowed datacenter, the administrator enables hardware profile mode, and selects the active hardware profiles that will be available . The administrator can select active and inactive profiles, but Abiquo does not display inactive profiles unless they are activated.to the tenant.
For public cloud providers that use hardware profiles, by default the Abiquo enables hardware profiles mode is enabled and the profiles are all selectedselects all hardware profiles to make them available. You cannot disable hardware profiles mode if the public cloud provider does not support CPU and RAM settings. The Abiquo administrator can select which if hardware profiles will be available to the enterprise or not.
Working with hardware profiles
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If the virtual machine is not deployed, you can change the hardware profile at any time. If the virtual machine is deployed and you are not using hot-add for CPU and RAM, shut down the virtual machine before making changes.
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After a hardware profile has been deactivated, the user can continue to work with it until they undeploy the virtual machine. 
destroy delete the virtual machine.
Enabling hardware profiles
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When you create a virtual appliance from a spec, Abiquo creates a virtual machine with a hardware profile, either reusing an existing one or creating a new one. Because Abiquo cannot create a new
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When you capture a virtual machine, Abiquo will resuse an existing hardware profile or create a new one.
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