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  1. Go to Catalogue → Private or Public → select datacenter or public cloud region → Virtual machine templates

  2. Check that there is no other category with the name you wish to use

  3. Open the Categories menu

  4. At the bottom of menu, click the + add button

  5. Enter the category name

  6. Optional: to create a global category, mark the checkbox to Make the category global

  7. Click Save to continue

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The new category will be added to the Categories list.

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  1. Go to Apps library → select the private cloud datacenter where the VM template is stored.

  2. Select the VM template and from its options menu, select ExportImage Removed

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  3. From the dialog, select Private or Public cloud.

    1. For public cloud

      1. select the public cloud provider and region

      2. select one bootable system disk.

    2. For private cloud

      1. select the datacenter

      2. select disks from the template to export.  

  4. Click Export

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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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

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Screenshot: The core template has two instances: Core_Instance_1 and Core_Instance_1_Instance_1

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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

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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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From the instance template's options menu, select Promote to master

Virtual machine templates in Apps library view

Enter a Name to identify the template

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The platform displays the promoted instance in the main section of the Apps library

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Manage instances of deleted templates

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Confirm that you would like to delete the instance template

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To display the unavailable instance:

  1. Select the filter to display Deleted VM templates

  2. Select the master template

Instances for virtual machine template - core

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