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Hardware profiles are a convenient way of displaying CPU and RAM values as service levels. Hardware profiles can make it easier for your users to configure their VMs. They also enable you to control which hardware configurations are available and to recommend suitable hardware configurations for VM templates. And you can restrict users to a set of recommended hardware configurations for a template.
Optionally, in private cloud you can create and fully manage hardware profiles and their families and types in the platform. In public cloud, you can onboard and synchronize the provider's profiles in the platform. Some cloud providers, such as VCD, may support both hardware profiles, and CPU and RAM.
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This page describes how to manage hardware profiles for private cloud datacenters and how to synchronize hardware profiles from public cloud providers in the hybrid cloud platform. For background information, see About hardware profiles |
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Display hardware profiles
To display hardware profiles, go to one of these two sections of the UI.
Infrastructure → Public → select provider region → Hardware profiles
Infrastructure → Private → select datacenter → Servers view → Hardware profiles
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Before you create hardware profiles in private cloud, the platform will display the default hardware profile families and types.
Classify hardware profiles in private cloud
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Control access to hardware profiles at a tenant level: Configure an enterprise in a cloud location
Configure hardware profiles for VM templates: See Modify a VM template
Configure pricing for hardware profiles: Pricing view
Configure VMs using hardware profiles: VM general information