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You can also configure Abiquo to ignore datastores by name and to ignore datastores that are not writeable.

See Configure datastore discovery on VMware

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Datastore checks

As part of the infrastructure check, Abiquo will check datastores to ensure that it can deploy VMs.

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See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/560988173/Configure+VM+disks+on+VMware and for more options, such as ISO disks, see Configure SATA for VMware hypervisors.

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VM templates

Abiquo users can obtain You can upload OVA and disk files to the Catalogue so users can create VMs from VM templates by self-service templates from the Catalogue.

See Template compatibility table , Add VM templates to the catalogue  and Importing templates into the catalogue

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