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| name | Introduction to vapp specs for cloud admin |
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The virtual appliance specifications (VApp specs) feature enables lets administrators to save complex configurations and present them to users for simple, self-service deployment across in their virtual datacenters.
Specs are similar to blueprints because the platform uses them to define the configurations to recreate. Administrators select the locations where users can work with each spec, including datacenters and public cloud regions, such as AWS and Azure ARM. |
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With specs, you can save the configuration of virtual appliances including VMs, storage, networks, monitoring, Chef, firewalls, and load balancers.
When users create a new virtual appliance based on a spec (also referred to as to "materialize" a spec), the platform will automatically use existing virtual resources or create new ones for this virtual appliance. The limitations of specs are as follows: Specs do not store data from VM disks; they use template disks only Specs do not support external networks and NICs or unmanaged networks and NICs Specs do not support scaling groups
Users should also be aware of differences in features between private and public cloud environments. |
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| name | Create a new version of a virtual appliance spec |
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To create a version of a spec: Log in to the owner enterprise (that created the spec) Go to myCloud view → Virtual datacenters Open a virtual appliance created from the spec Make changes as required From the Virtual appliance options menu select Create new spec version
The platform will save the spec version in the Catalogue. This latest version will be the new default unless the administrator sets a specific default version.  Image Removed Image Added |
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Display virtual appliance specs in the catalogue
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Define the version of a spec to use
See Define the version of a spec to use https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=abidoc&title=Define%20the%20version%20of%20a%20spec%20to%20use.
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Delete a virtual appliance spec
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