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To edit VM template disks in private cloud, log in to the tenant that the template belongs to, edit the template, and go to Disks.
To change the boot order of a disk
- Click the pencil edit button near the Sequence number and enter a new number. There must always be a boot disk in the 0 position, and the boot disk cannot be an empty disk.
To download a disk
- Select the disk
- Click the Download symbol on the right-hand side of the disk details
To add a disk:
- Click the + Add button in the top right of the Disk dialog
Select one of the options: Disk from local file, Disk from iso file, Empty disk or Template disk.
Enter the Details of the disk as described in the following sections
Add disk from local file
Enter the details of the disk to upload.
Click here to show/hide details of add disk from local file
Field | Value |
|---|
Type | The type of the template disk. See Disk Format Information.
To use the disk in the platform, it must have a correct type (not Unknown).
 If you have not added any hypervisors yet, the V2V conversion process will generate conversions for ALL supported hypervisors |
Capacity | The hard disk size required for the deployed disk in MB, GB, or TB. See Determine the size of a VM Disk File. - Fixed formats, the capacity is the physical size of the template disk.
- For sparse and compressed formats, the capacity is the provisioning size.
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| File name | Click Select file and use your browser to choose the file to upload. |
| Require DS tier | Select Datastore tier will be required when creating a virtual machine to ensure that the user will select a datastore tier. |
| Allocation type | The user with appropriate privileges can modify this value in a VM before they deploy it |
| Controller type | Select a controller type from: IDE, SCSI, SATA (ESXi), and VIRTIO (KVM) |
| Controller | On ESXi you can enter a SCSI controller type. The default value is the lsilogic controller. |
| Name | The name of the disk |
Add disk from ISO file
Enter the details of an ISO disk you will upload
Click here to display details of create a disk from ISO file
Field | Value |
|---|
File name | Click Select file and use your browser to choose the file to upload |
| Datastore tier will be required while creating a virtual machine | Optionally select this checkbox to require the user to select a datastore tier. To create a VM, the user will require the privilege to Manage virtual machine hard disks |
| Controller type | Recommended controllers for ISO disks are SATA or IDE |
| Controller | For SCSI controllers only |
| Name | The name of the disk |
| Add an extra empty disk | If you enter a disk size, the platform will create this hard disk and use it to install the ISO.
Users can change the size of the disk before they deploy a VM |
Add an empty disk
Enter the Capacity (or size) of the deployed disk and the disk Controller type and for SCSI disks, the Controller information.
Click here to display details of create an empty disk
Field | Description |
|---|
Capacity | The deployed size of the hard disk and units |
| Datastore tier | Only available for existing disks |
| Datastore tier will be required... | Select this checkbox to indicate that the user must select a datastore tier while creating a VM.
The user will require the privilege to manage hard disks in order to create a VM |
| Allocation type | Optional. Allocation type of the disk. |
| Controller type | The controller type of disk |
| Controller | Optional for SCSI controllers only. See Template disk controllers for SCSI |
Name | The name of the hard disk |
When you deploy the VM, the platform will create the empty disk on the hypervisor datastore.
Add a template disk
Select a template from the Catalogue and then select a disk from the template.
Abiquo will select the original disk, not the conversions. If you require other formats, generate conversions for these formats.
Manage template disk conversions
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Edit a template disk
To edit a disk:
- Select the Disk
- Click the pencil Edit button and make changes as described below
Click here to display details of edit virtual machine template disk
Field | Value |
|---|
Type | The disk type of the template. If the type is incorrect or UNKNOWN, you cannot deploy a VM with the disk. See Disk Format Information. |
Capacity | The hard disk space that is required to deploy this disk. See Determining the size of a VM Disk File. |
| Capacity units | MB, GB, or TB |
| File name | To download the disk, click Download beside the file name |
| Datastore tier | To set the storage service level of the template disk, select a Datastore tier. You can modify this value in a VM before you deploy it |
Datastore tier will be required
while creating a virtual machine | Optional. The user will require privileges to select a datastore tier in order to create a VM |
| Allocation type | The user with appropriate privileges can modify this value in a VM before they deploy it |
| Controller type | If you change the controller type your VM may not boot. The user can modify this value after they create a VM and before they deploy it. |
| Controller | On ESXi for SCSI - You can use multiple controllers on a VM and you can change the controller, even after deploy
- The default value is lsilogic or a value set by the system administrator
See Template disk controllers for SCSI |
| Name | Hard disk name |
Delete a template disk
Before you begin, check that the template is not in use. A template is in use if it has deployed VMs or dependent instances.
To delete a template disk:
- Select the Disk to delete
- Click the delete trash can icon