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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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This section describes how to display VM templates in the catalogue. |
To display VM templates:
Select Private or Public
Select a Datacenter or Public cloud region from the list
If you do not see the expected templates, click the round-arrow Refresh button beside the Datacenter name or contact your system administrator
Optionally, select a template Category
Optionally, select icon or list view
On the right, the platform will display all the templates available for the selected datacenter or public cloud region.
You can also search and filter VM templates in the same way as for VMs and other entitites.
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Privileges: Manage VM templates from Catalogue |
Icon view
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In Icon view, to activate the VM template operations menu, select a VM template. This menu will vary, depending on the context.
Screenshot: Options menu of VM template
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Screenshot: Options menu of a VM instance template, created from VM disks
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In list view, to display the VM Template operations buttons, select a VM template.
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Organize VM templates into categories
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Local categories belong to a single enterprise and cannot be seen or used by other enterprise
Global categories are visible to all users and are marked with the text "
(global)", and you will require the "Manage VM template global categories" privilege to manage them.
The predefined categories are "Applications servers", "Database servers", "Others", and "Web servers". If you download a VM template from a remote repository and its category does not exist yet, the platform will create the new global category with this name.
The default global category is "Others" and you cannot delete this category.
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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 main templates. |
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