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  1. Open the myCloud view by clicking its icon

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  2. If there are no virtual appliances to hold groups of VMs, click Create a virtual appliance.
    Enter a Name and select a Virtual datacenter, and enter optional values and click Save

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  3. Open a virtual appliance to hold a group of VMs by clicking the Open button on its card

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  4. To create a VM, click Create virtual machine

  5. Select a VM template. You can also double-click the VM template

    If there is more than one version of the VM template, you can select another version.
    If there are many VM templates, you can search by VM template name and filter the search, with parameters such as category, OS type, and creation order.

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  6. For the VM Name, enter a user-friendly label for the VM. Abiquo will use this name when creating the VM in the provider. 

    • If the provider does not support duplicate names, for example vCenter, Abiquo will add a number in brackets after the name. For example, if you another user already created two VMs from a template named TEMPLATE, then your next two VMs will be named TEMPLATE (2) and TEMPLATE (3). If you later try to rename the VM to a name that already exists in the provider, then Abiquo will return the hypervisor error.

  7. If required, select a hardware profile

  8. If required, select a datastore tier, which is the datastore service level, for your VM disk/s

  9. If required, accept the terms of use

  10. Save your selection

Select a hardware profile

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Filter templates for creating VMs

The Template Templates tab contains compatible templates only. If you cannot see an expected template, contact your system administrator.

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  • Click the Clear link on the Category filter popup, which will clear both category and text search box

  • Click the grey x button in the Search box

Next steps: Deploy a VM and power actions