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Easily manage a 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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This page describes how to manage VM templates that are already in the Catalogue |
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Display VM templates
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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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From the template icon options menu, select Delete. A confirmation 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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Click on the master template and the Instances panel will open with the instance templates.
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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