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Go to Catalogue → Private or Public → select datacenter or public cloud region → Virtual machine templates
Check that there is no other category with the name you wish to use
Open the Categories menu
At the bottom of menu, click the + add button
Enter the category name
Optional: to create a global category, mark the checkbox to Make the category global
Click Save to continue
The new category will be added to the Categories list.
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Select the edit menu button of a template that is in use and select Delete from the menu. A confirmation popup will open with details of the template use.
Confirm that you would like to force the delete. Abiquo will delete the disk files but not the template definition. The platform will mark this template as unavailable.
In the Apps library, the platform will not display the unavailable template in the default view. To display the template again, click the filter button and mark the checkbox to display Deleted templates, which are unavailable templates with no disk files. The platform will mark the template icon with a red X symbol.
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Screenshot: Deploy an instance of the Core in a new VM. There are now two VMs - one with the core template and one with an instance of the core template VM   Screenshot: The core template has two instances: Core_Instance_1 and Core_Instance_1_Instance_1   Now the administrator would like to delete the template, but there are VMs and instances. So the administrator will make the template unavailable. The platform will delete the disk files and users cannot create new VMs from the template. Screenshot: The administrator clicks the template edit menu and selects Delete  Screenshot: The platform displays the details of deployed VMs and instances on the "Virtual machine template in use" popup. The administrator clicks Yes to continue. The template disk files and the disk conversions will be deleted from the Apps Library. You cannot recover them within the platform   Screenshot: To view the unavailable template, click the template filter and select the Deleted checkbox. Click on the unavailable template to view the instances and they will display in the Instances panel below the master templates. |
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An Abiquo instance is a template that uses copies of one or more disks from a VM. For information about how to create instances, see Manage virtual machines#SaveVMdiskstocreateaninstancetemplate
In a datacenter, the platform stores an instance with the original master template. This means that you cannot delete a master template if it has instances. However, you can promote an instance to a master template.
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From the instance template's options menu, select Promote to master  Enter a Name to identify the template   The platform displays the promoted instance in the main section of the Apps library   |
Manage instances of deleted templates
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Confirm that you would like to delete the instance template   To display the unavailable instance:
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You cannot force the delete of an instance if it is in use in a VM.
If you try to delete an unavailable instance, an error popup will appear because the template is already unavailable.
To make the instance available again, replace the unavailable template files on the file system. When it detects the template files, the platform will mark the instance as available.
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For details about deleting instance templates, see Delete private templates in public cloud
To find an Abiquo instance that was deleted from the Catalogue but not from the public cloud provider:
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Delete private templates in public cloud
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In public cloud
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, to delete a private template (or custom template), such as an Abiquo instance:
Move the mouse over the template and from the options menu, select delete
Optionally select the checkbox to Delete this template in the cloud provider
Confirm the delete
By default, the platform will delete the template from the Apps library only and it will remain in the cloud provider.
If you delete the template in the cloud provider:
In AWS, when you delete a private AMI, it will also delete all the snapshots used by the AMI. If more than one AMI is using the same snapshot, AWS will delete the snapshot when you delete the last AMI.
In Azure, when you delete a private image, if the image was created from an image stored as a page blob, Azure will also delete the image.
In vCloud Director, when you delete an Abiquo private template, it will delete the vappTemplate that contains the template.
In OCI, it will delete the private image only.
In GCP, it will delete the private image only.
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Other Pages related to VM template management
VM templates in the Apps library
Manage virtual machines#SaveVMdiskstocreateaninstancetemplate