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This page describes how you can easily save and create a typical set of VMs using the virtual appliance specs (blueprints) feature. |
Introduction to virtual appliance specifications
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The virtual appliance specifications (VApp specs) feature enables administrators to save complex configurations and present them to users for simple, self-service deployment across their virtual datacenters. Specs are similar to blueprints because the platform uses them to define the configurations to recreate. Administrators select the locations where users can work with each spec, including datacenters and public cloud regions, such as AWS and Azure ARM. |
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With specs, you can save the configuration of virtual appliances including VMs, storage, networks, monitoring, Chef, firewalls, and load balancers. When users create a new virtual appliance based on a spec (also referred to |
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as to "materialize" a spec), the platform will automatically use existing virtual resources or create new ones for this virtual appliance. The limitations of specs are as follows:
Users should also be aware of differences in features between private and public cloud environments. |
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Save a VApp configuration as a blueprint spec
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