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  1. Go to Catalogue

  2. In the Private cloud section, select the datacenter

  3. On the Virtual machine templates tab, at the bottom of the templates panel, click the + add button

  4. Select Create from OVA file

     Create a template from an OVA file
  5. Click Select file and browse for the file.

    Browse for an OVA file on your local filesystem

    Abiquo will display the File name.

  6. Click Save. Abiquo will upload the file and create the template. When Abiquo has created the template, it will open the Edit template dialog. On the General tab, enter the FQDN

  7. On the Disks tab, you can add an extra empty hard disk for your application data.

  8. To add OVA parameters to all VMs, add them on the Variables tab. See Deploy a VM from an OVA with parameters.

  9. On the Advanced tab, if your VM template requires UEFI boot, select the checkbox

  10. Optionally, select Guest setup option

  11. Select Guest initial password to generate an initial password according to platform configuration

  12. For the User,enter the default user for the template

  13. For the Password,enter the default password of the user on the VM template

  14. Check and select the Operating system and if required, the OS version. For more details see Set the guest operating system for VMware

  15. Click Save

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