Create a virtual machine

To create a virtual machine (VM) do these steps.

1. Open the Virtual datacenters view by clicking its icon
   
2. 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
   
3. Open a virtual appliance to hold a group of VMs by clicking the Open button on its card
   
4. To create a VM, click Create virtual machine and 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.
   For the 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 named TEMPLATE (2) and TEMPLATE (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.

5. If required, select a hardware profile

6. If required, accept the terms of use

7. If required, select a datastore tier, which is the datastore service level, for your VM disk/s

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   Select a hardware profile

   

   Select a datastore tier

   

   Accept VM template terms

   

The platform will create your VM. The status bar on the VM icon displays the NOT_ALLOCATED state, which means that the VM has not been launched into the cloud.