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Display VM templates

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name Display VM templates
You can use VM templates to create VMs in your cloud environments. To display VM templates Select Private or Public Select a Datacenter or Public cloud region from the list If you do not see the expected templates, you may need to click the double round-arrow Refresh button beside the Datacenter name or contact your system administrator Optionally select a template Category Optionally select icon or list view On the right, the platform will display all the templates available for the selected datacenter or public cloud region Panel Privileges: Manage VM templates from Apps library Icon view Image Modified In Icon view, to activate the VM template operations menu, select a VM template. This menu will vary, depending on the context. Screenshot: Options menu of VM template Image Modified Screenshot: Options menu of a VM instance template, created from VM disks

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Image Added In list view, to display the VM Template operations buttons, select a VM template.  Image Modified

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Organize VM templates into categories

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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. 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 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 Image RemovedImage Added 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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