Infrastructure View
There is a new tab in Infrastructure view called Hardware Profiles. This tab is available in private cloud datacenters and public cloud regions.
To create a hardware profile, you must supply a unique name, and a unique combination of CPU and RAM.
You can create each hardware profile as active or inactive. Inactive profiles will not display in templates or virtual machines. Administrators can recommend active profiles for templates. Users can work with active profiles to create virtual machines.
You can edit all attributes of a hardware profile. The administrator cannot delete a hardware profile if it is in use in a deployed virtual machine. However, the administrator can make the hardware profile inactive. Administrators can activate or deactivate a profile at any time.
Public Cloud
Create a public cloud region and add credentials for an enterprise. Abiquo will automatically retrieve hardware profiles for the public cloud region.
Public cloud hardware profiles can have the same combinations of CPU and RAM, they do not have to be unique.
Enterprise
When editing a tenant, for each allowed datacenter, the administrator enables hardware profile mode, and selects the hardware profiles that will be available. The administrator can select active and inactive profiles, but Abiquo does not display inactive profiles unless they are activated.
For public cloud providers that use hardware profiles, by default the hardware profiles mode is enabled and the profiles are all selected. You cannot disable hardware profiles mode if the public cloud provider does not support CPU and RAM settings. The Abiquo administrator can select which profiles will be available to the enterprise.
Working with hardware profiles
Abiquo only displays active hardware profiles that are available to the enterprise in the location.
Editing templates
On the Advanced tab, from the list of active and available hardware profiles, the administrator can select recommended hardware profiles for a template. The following screenshot shows how the administrator recommends two profiles.
Note that in hardware profiles mode, the CPU and RAM values are not displayed on the General information tab. The administrator can set minimum and maximum CPU and RAM for the template. However, if there are recommended hardware profiles outside these limits, the platform will display an error and the administrator will not be able to save the template.
After the administrator saves the template with CPU and RAM limit values, Abiquo filters the display of hardware profiles to only show values in this range.
If the administrator further restricts minimum or maximum CPU and RAM, then a conflict may arise with hardware profile(s) that the administrator must resolve.
Virtual machines
The user can create virtual machines using the hardware profile and deploy them.
When the hardware profile is used in a deployed virtual machine, then the administrator cannot modify the hardware profile.
If there are no hardware profiles, you cannot create a VM.
After a hardware profile has been disabled, the user can continue to work with it until they undeploy the virtual machine.
Enabling hardware profiles
When you enable hardware profile mode, Abiquo automatically creates one hardware profile for each combination of CPU and RAM.
If a virtual machine matches a disabled profile, Abiquo will enable that profile instead of adding a new one.
VApp Specs
When you create a spec, Abiquo records the CPU and RAM, but not a specific hardware profile.
When you create a virtual appliance from a spec, Abiquo creates a VM with a hardware profile.
Capture
When you capture a virtual machine, Abiquo will create a hardware profile.
When you capture a VM, Abiquo creates a hardware profile.
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