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In public cloud providers with hardware profiles, when you create a public cloud region and add credentials for an enterprise, Abiquo will automatically retrieve the hardware profiles for the public cloud region. You can synchronize hardware profiles but you cannot edit them or make them inactive. There may be more than one hardware profileIn public cloud regions with native hardware profiles that also support CPU and RAM, you can deactivate hardware profiles mode
By default, for each enterprise with credentials, the hardware profiles mode is enabled. By default, all hardware profiles are available to all enterprises. The Abiquo administrator can edit the list of profiles that is available to an enterprise in a public cloud region, and they can make recommendations for templates, if this is not done automatically.
If you synchronize a public cloud region and a virtual machine has a hardware profile that is not allowed for the enterprise, the platform will automatically allow the hardware profile.
For AWS, Abiquo has defined some suggested recommends hardware profiles based on information supplied by AWS in the following table, which was loaded into Abiquo at the time this feature was developed: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/instance-type-matrix/
For each template, the administrator can select or edit the hardware profiles to display as recommended. And the administrator can optionally force the user to only work with recommended hardware profiles.
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If you synchronize a public cloud region and a virtual machine has a hardware profile that is not allowed for the enterprise, the platform will automatically allow the hardware profile.
In public cloud regions with native hardware profiles that also support CPU and RAM, you can deactivate hardware profiles mode.
Create a hardware profile
You can create Abiquo hardware profiles in private cloud datacenters and for public clouds that do not have native hardware profiles.
To create a hardware profile, open the datacenter or public cloud region to the Hardware profiles page, and click the + add button, and enter the details of the hardware profile.
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- Enable hardware profiles for your tenants and select allowed hardware profiles. See Manage Enterprises#Allowtenantstousehardwareprofiles
- Configure hardware profiles in your for templates templates. See Modify a Template for Hypervisor and Modify a Template for Public Cloud
Stop users from working with a hardware profile
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If a user already is already using a hardware profile on a virtual machine when you deactivate it, they can continue to use it until they delete their virtual machine. And in this case, the administrator can save the enterprise’s allowed datacenter with the inactive hardware profile selected. If the administrator deletes a hardware profile, it will be automatically removed from all enterprises. This means that an undeployed virtual machine could have no hardware profile and the user will need to select a new one before they deploy.
Activate a hardware profile again
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.
Enable hardware profiles in tenants
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You can also make Abiquo hardware profiles inactive in Infrastructure view, at any time and even if they are used in deployed virtual machines. See Stop users from working with a hardware profile
Stop users from working with a hardware profile
You can make an Abiquo hardware profile inactive at any time. This is useful because you cannot delete a hardware profile if it is in use in a deployed virtual machine. Users cannot work with inactive hardware profiles and Abiquo will not display them to select as recommended profiles in templates or for use in virtual machines.
If a user already is already using a hardware profile on a virtual machine when you deactivate it, they can continue to use it until they delete their virtual machine. And in this case, the administrator can save the enterprise’s allowed datacenter with the inactive hardware profile selected. If the administrator deletes a hardware profile, it will be automatically removed from all enterprises. This means that an undeployed virtual machine could have no hardware profile and the user will need to select a new one before they deploy.
Activate a hardware profile again
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.
Capture VM when using hardware profiles
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