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VM is locked during deploy
When you are deploying a VM, it may take a very long time, and the VM may appear to be locked, but there are no messages in the logs. The cause of this problem may be a hard disk that is very large for your environment.
If you need to add a large empty disk to your VMs for application data, then the best way to do this is to add an “empty” hard disk to your VM template. After you create a VM from a template with an empty disk, you may be able to resize the empty disk. An empty hard disk should deploy more quickly than a “real disk with no data”.
See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311378488/Modify+VM+template+disks#Add-an-empty-disk and VM storage.
Conversions in progress
If a template or disk operation is unable to complete due to a system issue, it may seem to be in progress indefinitely. And when you try to delete a problem disk, you may see an error such as:
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To display deleted templates in the Catalogue:
Open the Catalogue, select your datacenter and click Refresh
Select the option to Show deleted templates
The platform will now display the deleted templates with the red X symbol as shown in the following screenshot
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