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Edit VM template disks
To edit VM template disks in private cloud, log in to the tenant that the template belongs to, edit the template, and go to Disks.
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Enter the details of the disk to upload.
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Field | Value |
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Type | The type of the template disk. See Disk Format Information. |
Capacity | The hard disk size required for the deployed disk in MB, GB, or TB. See Determine the size of a VM Disk File.
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File name | Click Select file and use your browser to choose the file to upload. |
Require DS tier | Select Datastore tier will be required when creating a virtual machine to ensure that the user will select a datastore tier. |
Allocation type | The user with appropriate privileges can modify this value in a VM before they deploy it |
Controller type | Select a controller type from: IDE, SCSI, SATA (ESXi), and VIRTIO (KVM) |
Controller | On ESXi you can enter a SCSI controller type. The default value is the lsilogic controller. |
Name | The name of the disk |
If you have not added any hypervisors yet, the V2V conversion process will generate conversions for ALL supported hypervisors
Add disk from ISO file
Enter the details of an ISO disk you will upload
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Field | Value |
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File name | Click Select file and use your browser to choose the file to upload |
Datastore tier will be required while creating a virtual machine | Optionally select this checkbox to require the user to select a datastore tier. To create a VM, the user will require the privilege to Manage virtual machine hard disks |
Controller type | Recommended controllers for ISO disks are SATA or IDE |
Controller | For SCSI controllers only |
Name | The name of the disk |
Add an extra empty disk | If you enter a disk size, the platform will create this hard disk and use it to install the ISO. |
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Enter the Capacity (or size) of the deployed disk and the disk Controller type and for SCSI disks, the Controller information.
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Field | Description |
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Capacity | The deployed size of the hard disk and units |
Datastore tier | Only available for existing disks |
Datastore tier will be required... | Select this checkbox to indicate that the user must select a datastore tier while creating a VM. |
Allocation type | Optional. Allocation type of the disk. |
Controller type | The controller type of disk |
Controller | Optional for SCSI controllers only. See Template disk controllers for SCSI |
Name | The name of the hard disk |
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Manage template disk conversions
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To display and manage disk conversions, go to Disks, select the disk and check the conversion details in the Selected disk conversions panel.
To manually launch conversions to template formats, click Generate missing conversions. The platform will create conversions for any new hypervisor types.
To restart a failed conversion, click the Restart conversion link beside the conversion.
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Edit a template disk
To edit a disk:
Select the Disk
Click the pencil Edit button and make changes as described below
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Field | Value |
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Type | The disk type of the template. If the type is incorrect or UNKNOWN, you cannot deploy a VM with the disk. See Disk Format Information. |
Capacity | The hard disk space that is required to deploy this disk. See Determining the size of a VM Disk File. |
Capacity units | MB, GB, or TB |
File name | To download the disk, click Download beside the file name |
Datastore tier | To set the storage service level of the template disk, select a Datastore tier. You can modify this value in a VM before you deploy it |
Datastore tier will be required | Optional. The user will require privileges to select a datastore tier in order to create a VM |
Allocation type | The user with appropriate privileges can modify this value in a VM before they deploy it |
Controller type | If you change the controller type your VM may not boot. The user can modify this value after they create a VM and before they deploy it. |
Controller | On ESXi for SCSI
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Name | Hard disk name |
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