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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.
How do I enable hardware profile mode?
You can enable hardware profile mode for each enterprise in each allowed datacenter and at the same time, you can select the hardware profiles that will be available to the enterprise. If you don’t make any hardware profiles available to a tenant, then the tenant’s users will not be able to deploy virtual machines.
What if the tenant already has virtual machines deployed when I enable hardware profiles?
Abiquo will try to assign existing hardware profiles to virtual machines that are deployed when you enable hardware profiles mode. If the profile for a certain combination of CPU and RAM is inactive, Abiquo will activate this profile and assign it. Otherwise, Abiquo will create a new hardware profile named ABQ_HP_{cpu}_{ram}_ID.
How do I recommend hardware profiles for virtual machine templates?
For each virtual machine template, the administrator can recommend a set of hardware profiles, selecting from the active profiles that are available to the enterprise. Abiquo will display “(recommended)” after these profile names when users create a virtual machine from a template.
How do hardware profiles interact with template CPU and RAM limits?
The administrator can still set the minimum and maximum CPU and RAM for the template. However, if there are recommended hardware profiles outside these limits, the platform will display an error and mark the out-of-range values in red.
After the administrator saves the template with appropriate CPU and RAM limit values, Abiquo filters the display of hardware profiles to only show values in this range.
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User perspective
How do users work with hardware profiles?
When creating a virtual machine, the user must select a hardware profile.
If there are Abiquo instance templates, then the user can select specific instance templates and their hardware profiles.
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When you capture a virtual machine, Abiquo will create a hardware profile for it, or reuse an existing hardware profile, treating the virtual machine similarly to one that was already deployed when hardware profiles were enabled, as described above.
Enabling hardware profiles
How do I enable hardware profile mode?
You can enable hardware profile mode for each enterprise in each allowed datacenter and at the same time, you can select the hardware profiles that will be available to the enterprise. If you don’t make any hardware profiles available to a tenant, then the tenant’s users will not be able to deploy virtual machines.
What if the tenant already has virtual machines deployed when I enable hardware profiles?
Abiquo will try to assign existing hardware profiles to virtual machines that are deployed when you enable hardware profiles mode. If the profile for a certain combination of CPU and RAM is inactive, Abiquo will activate this profile and assign it. Otherwise, Abiquo will create a new hardware profile named ABQ_HP_{cpu}_{ram}_ID.
Recommending hardware profiles for templates
How do I recommend hardware profiles for virtual machine templates?
For each virtual machine template, the administrator can recommend a set of hardware profiles, selecting from the active profiles that are available to the enterprise. Abiquo will display “(recommended)” after these profile names when users create a virtual machine from a template.
How do hardware profiles interact with template CPU and RAM limits?
The administrator can still set the minimum and maximum CPU and RAM for the template. However, if there are recommended hardware profiles outside these limits, the platform will display an error and mark the out-of-range values in red.
After the administrator saves the template with appropriate CPU and RAM limit values, Abiquo filters the display of hardware profiles to only show values in this range.
Disabling hardware profile mode and profiles
What happens if I disable hardware profile mode?
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Yes, you can activate a hardware profile again at any time. Also, Abiquo will automatically activate an existing hardware profile in preference to creating a new one when switching to hardware profile mode, capturing a virtual machine, or creating a virtual appliance from a spec.
Public cloud
Changes to hardware profiles in public cloud
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