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Hardware profiles are a convenient way of displaying CPU and RAM values as service levels. Hardware profiles can make it easier for your users to configure their VMs. They also enable you to control which hardware configurations are available and to recommend suitable hardware configurations for VM templates. And you can restrict users to a set of recommended hardware configurations for a template.
Optionally, in private cloud you can create and fully manage hardware profiles and their families and types in the platform. In public cloud, you can onboard and synchronize the provider's profiles in the platform. Some cloud providers, such as VCD, may support both hardware profiles, and CPU and RAM.
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This page describes how to manage hardware profiles for private cloud datacenters and how to synchronize hardware profiles from public cloud providers in the hybrid cloud platform. For background information, see About hardware profiles |
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Since 6.2.1 we incorporate new views to allow more friendly UX for end users |
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Display hardware profiles
To display hardware profiles, go to one of these two sections of the UI.
Infrastructure → Public → select provider region → Hardware profiles
Infrastructure → Private → select datacenter → Servers view → Hardware profiles
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Before you create hardware profiles in private cloud, the platform will display the default hardware profile families and types.
Classify hardware profiles in private cloud
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Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public
Select a location and go to Hardware profiles
Click the + add button
Enter the details of the hardware profile
Click Save
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Family | Select a family to classify the hardware profile. The family can help users understand the main purpose of the hardware profile |
Type | Select a type to classify the hardware profile. The type can help users understand the performance specifications of the hardware profile |
Name | Enter a unique name for the hardware profile. Identify it to users who will select it for their VMs. |
CPU | The number of virtual CPUs to assign to VMs using this hardware profile. The combination of CPU and RAM must be unique in the datacenter. For dynamic hardware profiles this is the default value. |
Cores per socket | The number of cores per socket to use for supported hypervisors such as VMware. The number of CPUs must be divisible by this value. For dynamic hardware profiles this is the default value. |
RAM | The amount of virtual RAM to assign to VMs using this hardware profile. The combination of CPU and RAM must be unique in the datacenter. Select RAM units of MB, GB or TB. For dynamic hardware profiles, this is the default value. |
Dynamic | To allow the user to enter CPU and/or RAM values, select the Dynamic option/s. Pricing and billing of dynamic hardware profiles will include cost codes, and CPU and RAM usage pricing. |
Extra charges | For pricing and billing, select extra charges for the hardware profile. See Create a new cost code for an extra charge in Pricing view. |
Active | Select this checkbox to activate or deactivate the hardware profile. |
Current generation | Select this checkbox to mark that the hardware profile is compatible with current VM templates |
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Set prices for hardware profiles
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Activate hardware profiles for users and templates
After you have prepared hardware profiles, do the following steps:
Enable Activate hardware profiles for your tenants and select allowed hardware profiles. See Configure an enterprise in a cloud location
By default, users can select from all custom hardware profiles for all templates. See Modify a VM template.
You can edit a VM template andto:Recommend a set of hardware profiles OR
Enable Activate a set of selected hardware profiles for each template.
For details of how Abiquo will manage hardware profiles, see Automatic management of hardware profiles
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Prevent users from working with
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hardware
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profiles
For custom hardware profiles, you can deactivate a hardware profile at any time in Infrastructure view for the selected datacenter on the Hardware profiles page. The platform will not display inactive hardware profiles to select as recommended profiles in templates or for use in VMs.
For a tenant, to disable you can deactivate hardware profiles mode or to disable a specific hardware profile that is not in use in deployed VMs, see Manage enterprises In a datacenter or a public cloud region with custom hardware profiles, you can deactivate a hardware profile at any time. The platform will not display inactive hardware profiles to select as recommended profiles in templates or for use in VMs.by editing the enterprise in an allowed datacenter on the Hardware profiles tab.
If you only activate a set of recommended hardware profiles for each VM template, then users will not be able to work with the other hardware profiles.
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Deactivating custom hardware profiles
If a user already is already using a hardware profile on a VM when you deactivate it, they can continue to use it until they delete their VM. In this case, the administrator can save the enterprise’s allowed datacenter with the inactive hardware profile selected.
You can activate a hardware profile again at any time. Also, the platform will automatically activate an existing hardware profile in preference to creating a new one when switching to hardware profile mode, capturing a VM, or creating a virtual appliance from a spec.
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Delete custom hardware profiles
After you deactivate a hardware profile, you may wish to delete it.
You cannot delete a hardware profile if it is used in a deployed VM
If the administrator deletes a hardware profile, it will be automatically removed from all enterprises.
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This means that an undeployed VM could have no hardware profile and the user will need to select a new one before they deploy.
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Synchronize hardware profiles with a provider
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Provider hardware profiles are locked and you cannot edit them
In public cloud regions with provider hardware profiles that also support CPU and RAM, you can deactivate hardware profiles mode
The platform also registers if a hardware profile is Active and if it belongs to the Current generation.
To synchronize hardware profiles:
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By default, for each enterprise with credentials, the hardware profiles mode is enabled. By default, all hardware profiles are available to all enterprises.
Abiquo onboards and synchronizes all hardware profiles for each region. Some of these hardware profiles are not valid in some zones or for some VM templates, if they are not from the same generation. Users can still work with an older hardware profile, but the provider a warning or error because it will later be removed.
After you recommend the hardware profiles for a template, the platform will filter the hardware profiles by generation compatibility, subscription, and region.
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Manage hardware profiles with the API
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API Documentation For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource HardwareProfilesDatacenterResource. |
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New Hardware profiles screens
Now in Edit VM screen it’s possible to see selected Hardware profile and press on “select” button to open an advanced Hardware profiles selection screen
The “show only recommended” checkbox is disabled by default.
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Related pages
Control access to hardware profiles at a tenant level: Configure an enterprise in a cloud location
Configure hardware profiles for VM templates: See Modify a VM template
Configure pricing for hardware profiles: Pricing view
Configure VMs using hardware profiles: VM general information