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Easily manage a catalog catalogue of VM templates in private cloud and public cloud providers including Amazon, Azure, and Google with the Abiquo multicloud platform |
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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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Privileges: Manage VM templates from Apps libraryCatalogue, Export template to public cloud, Export template to private cloud |
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To export to public cloud, you must first prepare the templates according to the cloud provider instructions.
See Preparing templates for export to public cloud
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Abiquo uses the BPM - V2V conversion service to perform any required conversions and to upload the template to public cloud. During an export, the platform will queue the BPM and V2V processes for conversions, instances, and persistent templates. |
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Before you begin:
Check cloud providers. See Introduction See Introduction to mobility above
Prepare templates for export to public cloud according to the cloud provider's instructions. See Preparing templates for export to public cloud
To export a template to a datacenter or public cloud
Go to Catalogue → select
Select the private cloud datacenter where the VM template is stored.
Select the VM template and from its options menu, select Export
From the dialog, select Private or Public cloud.
For public cloud
select the public cloud provider and region
select one bootable system disk.
For private cloud
select the datacenter
select disks from the template to export.
Click Export
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Replace template disk(s) with new disk(s), so future VMs use the new disk(s). To replace a disk, you can use the Abiquo UI or API. See Manage VM templates and Appliance manager template API upload and download
Delete a template, which requires that no deployed VMs are using the template and it has no instances. Note that you can promote instances to master templates and then delete the instances
Make a template unavailable to users, when it is in use
To delete a shared template or make it unavailable, you must be logged in to the owner enterprise. If you make it unavailabeunavailable, it will only be marked as unavailable for all users when the template owner performs a refresh of the Catalogue.
To remove a template that is not in use, click from the template edit icon options menu button and , select Delete from the menu.
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Abiquo will remove the template from the Catalogue and the NFS repository file system.
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To make a template unavailable in the UI:
Select From the edit menu button of a template that is in use and select Delete from the menutemplate icon options menu, select Delete. A confirmation popup dialog 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 Catalogue, 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   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 Catalogue. 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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An Abiquo instance is a template that uses copies of one or more disks from a VM. For information about how to create instances, see Manage virtual machines#SaveVMdiskstocreateaninstancetemplateSave VM disks to create an instance template
In a datacenter, the platform stores an instance with the original master template. This means that you cannot delete a master template if it has instances. However, you can promote an instance to a master template.
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Click on the master template and the Instances panel will open with the instance templates.
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You can modify the instance template, to change the CPU, RAM, icon, and so on, and these changes will not affect the master template.
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From the instance template's options menu, select Promote to master   Enter a Name to identify the template   The platform displays the promoted instance in the main section of the Catalogue   |
Manage instances of deleted templates
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Confirm that you would like to delete the instance template   To display the unavailable instance:
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You cannot force the delete of an instance if it is in use in a VM.
If you try to delete an unavailable instance, an error popup will appear because the template is already unavailable.
To make the instance available again, replace the unavailable template files on the file system. When it detects the template files, the platform will mark the instance as available.
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For details about deleting instance templates, see see Delete private templates in public cloud below.
To find an Abiquo instance that was deleted from the Catalogue but not from the public cloud provider:
Go to Catalogue view, click on Import template
Select Private
To search for the template by the Name field, enter the name you gave your Abiquo instance template when you created it, or the Template ID
Click Search
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Troubleshooting If a template is still in the Catalogue, it will not display in the results of the remote search. |
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In public cloud, to delete a private template (or custom template), such as an Abiquo instance:
Move From the mouse over the template and from the template icon options menu, select delete
Optionally select the checkbox to Delete this template in the cloud provider
Confirm the delete
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