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Easily manage a catalog of VM templates in private cloud and public cloud providers including Amazon, Azure, and Google with the Abiquo multicloud platform |
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Display VM templates
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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
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Privileges: Manage VM templates from Apps library |
Icon view
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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
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Screenshot: Options menu of a VM instance template, created from VM disks
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In list view, to display the VM Template operations buttons, select a VM template.
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Organize VM templates into categories
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Go to Catalogue → Private or Public → select datacenter or public cloud region → Virtual machine templates
Check that there is no other category with the name you wish to use
Open the Categories menu
At the bottom of menu, click the + add button
Enter the category name
Optional: to create a global category, mark the checkbox to Make the category global
Click Save to continue
The new category will be added to the Categories list.
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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.
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.
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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