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This document is part of the Abiquo walkthrough and it describes the Catalogue. |
The Catalogue Catalogue is where the Admin will make it easy for the cloud users to work with the infrastructure that they are providing. In the Cataloguecatalogue, the Admin will provide the VM templates for creating VMs and blueprints for creating virtual appliance (VApp) configurations, and the Admin can configure services for XaaS.
In each private cloud datacenter, the Admin should configure the Catalogue catalogue based on an NFS Repository. Then Admins can upload templates as OVAs, template disks, or ISO disks, for example. The Service Catalogue catalogue in public cloud for templates is a cache of template details with links to the original provider templates.
For Service Providers the Catalogue catalogue enables the provider to offer appliances and applications to their customer. For Enterprises the Catalogue catalogue provides a central, controlled image repository so that only approved images can be deployed onto the infrastructure.
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Abiquo supplies sample templates in a Remote Repository hosted on Amazon S3. Download some of these templates for testing.
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On the Catalog tab select the data center.
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Select the templates and click Download to save them to the local datacenter Catalogue
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The Cloud Admin can upload VM templates from the local filesystem and may also allow Enterprise Admins to upload their own templates to the Catalogue for their users. If the enterprise is a reseller, the Cloud Admin can allow them to share templates with their tenants.
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To upload a custom VM template:
On the Catalogue tab select the data center
Click the + Add button and select the option to Create from OVA
Select the OVA file. Abiquo imports OVAs created in VMware. The OVA shoulld contain a single virtual system and the disk format should be compatible with Abiquo. See Template compatibility table
After you upload the OVA, edit the template as required. On the Advanced tab, check that the Operating system is set correctly
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Users can create clones of their VM disks as instance templates. In private cloud, instances are stored with the master main templates in the Catalogue.
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In both private and public cloud, Admins can also create application blueprints called virtual appliance specs by saving the configuration of a group of VMs to the Cataloguecatalogue. The user can then select to the blueprint to automatically create a new virtual appliance directly from the blueprint.
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And Admins can create default service configurations for Abiquo XaaS, which supports many services out of the box including AWX, AWS RDS, AWS Route 53, and Azure MySQL database.
Abiquo XaaS will let you easily integrate any kind of service into Abiquo and then offer it directly to your customers.
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