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Abiquo supplies sample templates in a Remote Repository hosted on Amazon S3. Download some of these templates for testing.
Note that by default the Cloud Admin has the privilege to Manage repository (to add and delete remote repositories) and Admins have access to the Catalogue and the privilege to Download VM templates from remote repository. |
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To upload a custom VM template:
The template will be uploaded to your Catalogue and can be used to deploy VMs within a virtual appliance. |
Users can create clones of their VM disks as instance templates. In private cloud, instances are stored with the master templates in the Catalogue.
Screenshot: A template and clones of VM disks created from the template (instance templates)
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In private cloud datacenters, Cloud Admins can set allocation limits to ensure that no single enterprise uses all the repository space. The platform meters Repository usage and you can bill each tenant for it.
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In public cloud regions, the Catalogue enables you to filter and search for public cloud images. It also allows you to import the image details into the Abiquo public cloud region Catalogue, which is a cache of template definitions. Here you can modify the way that Abiquo will present the public cloud templates to your users and, for example, restrict the hardware profiles that users can work with. Users can easily find and deploy the approved templates cached in the Catalogue. Users can also create instance templates to clone the disks of their VMs running in the public cloud region.
Screenshot: In public cloud the Catalogue imports the details of templates from the provider and links to the provider's disk files.
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In both private and public cloud, Admins can also create application blueprints called virtual appliance specs by saving the configuration of a group of VMs to the Catalogue. The user can then automatically create a new virtual appliance directly from the blueprint.
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