In the Abiquo Catalogue you can compile a selection of certified public cloud templates for your users to quickly and easily deploy VMs. Abiquo stores the details of these templates but not their disks.
Public cloud libraries can have many thousands of VM templates (e.g. AWS has 19,000 AMIs) that are difficult to find and manage. In addition, administrators cannot control the content of public cloud templates. In the Apps libraryCatalogue, you can define a cache of details of your approved or certified public cloud templates. And you you can customize the templates' representation to make it even easier for cloud users to find the right template.
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To display VM templates
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Public cloud templates belong only to the region they were created in. Templates in one region usually cannot be accessed from another region and this rule also applies to the Abiquo Apps library. Public cloud templates that are effectively the same will usually have different IDs and names in each region.
Display public cloud templates in the Apps Library
The Abiquo Apps library is a collection of VM templates that enables users to quickly and easily deploy VMs. To open the Apps library, click the Apps library icon in the main menu bar.
Click on the Public radio button. In the public list, click on the name of the public cloud region. By default you will see any templates you can deploy within this region in icon view. Click on the List view tab :
Go to Catalogue → Public
Select the public cloud region
To change to the list view, click on the list view symbol in the top right-hand corner
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To display the details of a template, move the mouse over the template. A tool tip tooltip will display the template information.
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Filter local public cloud templates
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You can search and filter
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templates for all public clouds and other clouds that use their own registry,
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such as
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vCloud Director
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You can filter to find the templates you want to work with in the Apps library. To open the filter, click the funnel Filter button. Enter filter values and click Accept.
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Filter
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Type
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Comments
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ID
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Free text
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For example, ami-0354b96a
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Name
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Free text
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Search for this text in each template Name and Description. The search is not case sensitive
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OS type
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Selector
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Any, Windows or Other
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32 bits
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Checkbox
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32-bit images
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64 bits
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Checkbox
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64-bit images
Click Clear to reset filter values to defaults, which will be to display all local templates. .
To filter templates in the Catalogue:
Click the funnel filter button.
Enter filter values that are not case sensitive
For the ID, you can enter a template ID, for example, ami-0354b96a
For the Name you can enter any text, including wildcards, to search for in the template name and description.
Click Search
To reset filter values to defaults, click Clear.
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