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Open the myCloud view by clicking its icon
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
Open a virtual appliance to hold a group of VMs by clicking the Open button on its card
To create a VM, click Create virtual machine
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.
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 namedTEMPLATE (2)andTEMPLATE (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.
If required, select a hardware profile
If required, select a datastore tier, which is the datastore service level, for your VM disk/s
If required, accept the terms of use
Save your selection
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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