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There are two provisioning approaches supported by the Abiquo platform: non-persistent and persistent. This is a simple example with only one persistent disk.
The Nonnon-persistent approach: Abiquo provisions the VM and copies a standard disk to the cloud node or creates a new hard disk on the datastore. When the user undeploys the VM, the data on the standard disk will be overwritten. This is the default process in the Abiquo platform.
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The Persistent persistent approach: Abiquo provisions the VM and the persistent disk is located on external storage. When the user undeploys the virtual appliance, the VM data is kept on the volume of external storage.
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