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  1. The Capacity is the hard disk space to deploy this disk. Check your cloud provider's minimum capacity requirements for your operating system

    1. When you import a VM template from Azure, the Capacity will be set to 0 and this means the platform will use the default size of the template in the provider

  2. To set the storage service level of the template disk, select a Datastore tier. You can modify this value in a VM before you deploy it

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Edit VM template variables

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To make a template private to the owner enterprise, unselect all scopes.

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Add a bootstrap script to a VM template in public cloud

Add a bootstrap script to a VM template and the platform will add it to all VMs created from the template to use with the Cloud-init (or similar) option, for Guest setup, which you can configure on the Advanced tab. You can also use scripts that are saved as Script templates.  

Before you begin:

  1. Prepare a template that is compatible with cloud-init (version 0.7.9 or above), or cloudbase-init, or a similar system

To add a VM bootstrap configuration or script:

  1. In the Catalogue, edit a VM template

  2. Go to Bootstrap

  3. If you have the Add a script template to a VM template privilege, select Use own script or Use script template

    • For Use own script, paste your configuration or script in the Bootstrap script text box

      Use your own script for a bootstrap script in a VM templateImage Added

    • For Use script template, click Search, and double-click a script template, or select a script template and click Accept

      Use a script template for a bootstrap script in a VM templateImage Added

  4. Continue to configure the VM template or click Save to finish

Note: when you save VM disks to an instance template, Abiquo copies the VM bootstrap script to the instance template.

Related links

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Edit template on advanced tab in public cloud

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Field

Value

Guest setup

In public cloud, by default the Guest setup option is automatically set to Cloud-init even if you do not select this option.
It also assumes that your templates are compatible with Cloud-init.
In AWS, for Windows templates, you can also select from: Cloudbase-init, EC2Config, EC2Launch, and EC2Launch v2.

Guest initial password

For Windows, select Guest initial password to request an initial password that will be sent by email or SMS.
Remember to set the User field below to an appropriate user, such as administrator.

Cost codes

The cost codes for extra charges for this template are now on a separate tab. See Add cost codes for extra charges for a VM template in Modify a VM template

Operating system

Select the operating system type.

To use the latest version of an operating system, select a generic type, e.g. WINDOWS, and do not enter the version. 

The platform uses the operating system to:

  • load the default icon defined for the OS or the generic OS type, if you have not set an icon

  • enable users to search for the template (e.g. Ubuntu 64-bit template)

  • determine the correct remote access method

For more details of VMware guest operating system types, see Guest operating system definition for VMware and Extended OVF support and template definition .

OS version

OS version is used to:

  • add operating systems not included in the list of codes

  • provide details of operating systems

User

Default user for a VM created from this template for Linux SSH access and Windows RDP access

  • Enter the appropriate user for the operating system, for example, root or administrator

  • The user will need to enter their SSH public key in their user account and use their SSH private key to access the VM

Password

Default password for the default User of a VM created from this template for Windows systems only

NIC driver

Abiquo always supports E1000 drivers, and other drivers may be available depending on the cloud provider

Enable UEFI boot

When selected, disable BIOS boot and enable UEFI boot.

  • Requires templates with UEFI firmware and operating system support for UEFI boot.

  • Abiquo recommends that users:

    • Do not change the template's disk controllers

    • Meet the minimum hardware requirements for the OS

    • Correctly indicate the 32/64 bit architecture

For VMs, the uefiEnabled attribute is read-only and it is available via the API.

Enable hot add / reconfigure in VM

See separate section

  • For Google Cloud Platform, the VM must be powered on for reconfigure

Creation user

SYSTEM means that the platform created the template

Creation date

Date and time when the template was created.

Enable hot add and hot reconfigure for VM templates

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Enable hot-add or hot-reconfigure in VM is valid for supported providers only with supported guest operating systems. 
Check that the Operating system and OS version are correctly set for your system.

Option

Description

CPU hot-add

Enable

Let users

to

add CPUs in the platform while the VM is powered on

RAM hot-add

Enable

Let users

to

add RAM in the platform while the VM is powered on

Disks hot-reconfigure

Enable

Let users

to

remove disks from the boot sequence and add disks to the end of the boot sequence while the VM is powered on

NICs hot-reconfigure

Enable

Let users

to

add and remove NICs in the platform while the VM is powered on

Remote access hot-reconfigure

Enable

Let users

to

reset remote access in the platform while the VM is powered on. Not used in public cloud

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Add cost codes for extra charges for a VM template

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