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This page describes how to edit a VM template in the public cloud catalogue.
To add VM templates from the provider or the local system to the catalogue, see Add VM templates to the catalogue
To modify VM templates in private cloud, see Modify a VM template

Before you begin:

  1. Log in or switch enterprises to the tenant that owns the template

To modify a VM template:

  1. Select the template and click on the control menu button in the top-right corner and select Edit

Panel

Privileges: Manage VM templates from Catalogue

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Enter the general details of the VM template:

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  1. Edit a Name to identify the template. The platform will assign this name to VMs that users create from this template. Check your cloud provider naming requirements!

  2. Optionally, select a Category. The platform will display the templates to users by category

  3. For the Icon, enter a URL with a public IP address, not localhost or 127.0.0.1. It may contain the IP address of the API server. For more details, see the template icons expanding section below.

  4. If your cloud provider supports hardware profiles and CPU/RAM values to configure VMs, you can configure CPU and RAM for the template. For more details, see the private cloud documentation at Modify a VM template .

  5. The Creation date is the timestamp of when you onboarded the template from the cloud provider. 

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titleClick here to show/hide more details about template icons

  • We recommend square images of size 128x128 pixels with a transparent background. Compatible formats are PNG, JPG, and GIF.

  • If an administrator shares the template with other tenants, then this icon will display for their users

  • If you change the icon of a template with instance templates, when you create the next instance, it will have the new icon

  • If you do not set an Icon, the platform will use the default VM icon from the UI theme

  • If the Operating System is set on the Advanced tab, and you don't set an icon, the platform may display the icon for a specific OS type or a generic OS type. The platform will not assign this icon to VMs.
    See Configure default template icons by operating system type

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Edit virtual machine template disk in public cloud

To edit VM template disk in public cloud providers:

  1. The Capacity is the hard disk space to deploy this disk. Check your cloud provider's minimum capacity requirements for your operating system

    1. When you import a VM template from Azure, the Capacity will be set to 0 and this means the platform will use the default size of the template in the provider

  2. 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

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Edit VM template variables

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After the VM deploys, users can then access variables in the guest.
For example, AWS stores the variables in the ~in the ~/vm-variables.rc filerc file. Cloud-init may use variables.

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To make a template private to the owner enterprise, unselect all scopes.

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Edit template on advanced tab in public cloud

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Field

Value

Guest setup

In public cloud, by default the Guest setup option is automatically set to Cloud-init even if you do not select this option.
It also assumes that your templates are compatible with Cloud-init.
In AWS, for Windows templates, you can also select from: Cloudbase-init, EC2Config, EC2Launch, and EC2Launch v2.

Guest initial password

For Windows, select Guest initial password to request an initial password that will be sent by email or SMS.
Remember to set the User field below to an appropriate user, such as administrator.

Cost codes

The cost codes for extra charges for this template are now on a separate tab. See Add cost codes for extra charges for a VM template in Modify a VM template

Operating system

Select the operating system type.

To use the latest version of an operating system, select a generic type, e.g. WINDOWS, and do not enter the version. 

The platform uses the operating system to:

  • load the default icon defined for the OS or the generic OS type, if you have not set an icon

  • enable users to search for the template (e.g. Ubuntu 64-bit template)

  • determine the correct remote access method (question)

For more details of VMware guest operating system types, see Guest operating system definition for VMware and Extended OVF support and template definition.

OS version

OS version is used to:

  • add operating systems not included in the list of codes

  • provide details of operating systems

User

Default user for a VM created from this template for Linux SSH access and Windows RDP access

  • Enter the appropriate user for the operating system, for example, root or administrator

  • The user will need to enter their SSH public key in their user account and use their SSH private key to access the VM

Password

Default password for the default User of a VM created from this template for Windows systems only

NIC driver

Abiquo always supports E1000 drivers, and other drivers may be available depending on the cloud provider

Enable UEFI boot

When selected, disable BIOS boot and enable UEFI boot.

  • Requires templates with UEFI firmware and operating system support for UEFI boot.

  • Abiquo recommends that users:

    • Do not change the template's disk controllers

    • Meet the minimum hardware requirements for the OS

    • Correctly indicate the 32/64 bit architecture

For VMs, the uefiEnabled attribute is read-only and it is available via the API.

Enable hot add / reconfigure in VM

See separate section

  • For Google Cloud Platform, you must reconfigure the VM when it is powered on

Creation user

SYSTEM means that the platform created the template

Creation date

Date and time when the template was created.

Enable hot add and hot reconfigure for VM templates

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Enable hot-add or hot-reconfigure in VM is valid for supported providers only with supported guest operating systems. 
Check that the Operating system and OS version are correctly set for your system.

Option

Description

CPU hot-add

Enable users to add CPUs in the platform while the VM is powered on

RAM hot-add

Enable users to add RAM in the platform while the VM is powered on

Disks hot-reconfigure

Enable users to remove disks from the boot sequence and add disks to the end of the boot sequence while the VM is powered on

NICs hot-reconfigure

Enable users to add and remove NICs in the platform while the VM is powered on

Remote access hot-reconfigure

Enable users to reset remote access in the platform while the VM is powered on. Not used in public cloud

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Add cost codes for extra charges for a VM template

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