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Introduction to virtual appliances
A virtual appliance is like a folder that contains a group of one or more virtual machines (VMs). These VMs may be related and you can use them together to provide a service. You can manage each VM separately or deploy all the VMs in the virtual appliance together. You must create VMs within virtual appliances.
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To create a new virtual appliance to hold a group of VMs, do these steps:
Go to myCloud view → Virtual datacenters
Select a virtual datacenter
At the bottom of the screen, click the + add button
If a menu displays, select Create virtual appliance and complete the form
To display your own Icon, enter the URL of the server hosting the icon, which can be the API server.
Use the same protocol as the server to avoid mixed content errors.
The icon can be a PNG, JPG, or GIF image. For best results use square icon images with a size of 128x128 pixels and a transparent background.
Click Save
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The platform will launch the VMs and power them on. The status bar below each VM icon will be coloured green. And the Deploy virtual appliance button changes to become the Undeploy virtual appliance button, which you can click to destroy the VMs.
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To display the metrics of the VMs in the virtual appliance, :
Open the virtual appliance
Select the Virtual machine metrics page
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Go to Virtual appliances → Edit a virtual appliance→ Tags
Add tags as described below
For entities that exist in the platform only, such as virtual appliances, the user can create tags in the platform only.
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To Move, click on the crossed arrows move button of the virtual appliance icon, or the Name (in list mode), and drag it into the new virtual datacenter
To Copy, hold down the
SHIFTkey, then click on the move button or the Name of the virtual appliance and drag it into the new virtual datacenter
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For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resourceshttps://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest and the page for this resource VirtualApplianceResourceVirtualAppliancesResource.
See also the API How tos, for example: https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311374231/API+create+virtual+datacenters+and+virtual+machines+tutorial
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Undeploy a virtual appliance
Before you begin:
If all the VMs in the virtual appliance is are not synchronized with deployed in the hypervisor or cloud provider, first:
Remove any undeployed VMs, OR OR
Individually undeploy the deployed VMs, OR
Deploy all VMs
To undeploy a virtual appliance, which will destroy all VMs and hard disks on the hypervisor datastore:
Go to Virtual datacenters → select Virtual myCloud → Virtual datacenters
Select the virtual appliance
Click the Undeploy button on the right-hand side of the screen.
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To delete a virtual appliance:
Go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters
Select a virtual appliance
Click the trash bin delete button
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To create VMs with high availability using anti-affinity layers, see Manage VM high availability
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Pages related to virtual appliances
Working with VMs
To administer virtual resources, see the Related pages section of myCloud view