Infrastructure View
There is a new tab in Infrastructure view called Hardware Profiles. This tab is available in private cloud datacenters and public cloud regions.
To create a hardware profile, you must supply a unique name, and a unique combination of CPU and RAM.
You can create each hardware profile as active or inactive. Administrators can recommend active profiles for templates. Users can work with active profiles to create virtual machines.
You can edit all attributes of a hardware profile. The administrator cannot delete a hardware profile if it is in use in a deployed virtual machine. However, the administrator can make the hardware profile inactive.
Public Cloud
Create a public cloud region and add credentials for an enterprise. Abiquo will automatically retrieve hardware profiles for the public cloud region.
Public cloud hardware profiles do not have to be unique combinations of CPU and RAM.
Enterprise
In each allowed datacenter, the administrator enables hardware profile mode, and selects the hardware profiles that will be available to the enterprise. The administrator can select active and inactive profiles, but Abiquo does not display inactive profiles.
In public cloud providers that use hardware profiles, they are enabled and active by default. You cannot disable them if the public cloud provider only uses hardware profiles. However, the administrator can select profiles that will be available to the enterprise.
Working with hardware profiles
Abiquo only displays active hardware profiles that are available to the enterprise in the location.
Editing templates
From the list of active hardware profiles, the administrator can select recommended hardware profiles for a template.
The administrator can still set minimum and maximum CPU and RAM for the template, and the hardware profiles shown should be within this range.
If the administrator changes minimum or maximum CPU and RAM, then the hardware profile can cause an error.
Virtual machines
The user can create virtual machines using the hardware profile and deploy them.
When the hardware profile is used in a deployed virtual machine, then the administrator cannot modify the hardware profile.
If there are no hardware profiles, you cannot create a VM.
After a hardware profile has been disabled, the user can continue to work with it until they undeploy the virtual machine.
Enabling hardware profiles
When you enable hardware profile mode, Abiquo automatically creates one hardware profile for each combination of CPU and RAM.
If a virtual machine matches a disabled profile, Abiquo will enable that profile instead of adding a new one.
VApp Specs
When you create a spec, Abiquo records the CPU and RAM, but not a specific hardware profile.
When you create a virtual appliance from a spec, Abiquo creates a VM with a hardware profile.
Capture
When you capture a virtual machine, Abiquo will create a hardware profile.
When you capture a VM, Abiquo creates a hardware profile.