Modify a virtual appliance spec
Before you begin:
- Log in or switch enterprises to the tenant that owns the spec
To modify a VApp spec:
- Select the VApp spec, click on the control menu button in the top-right corner and select Edit
Privilege: Manage virtual appliance specs
Edit details of a spec
Fore more details see GUI Edit spec General information
Share a spec with multiple tenants
To share a VApp spec with multiple tenants, assign scopes to the spec. A scope is a list of enterprises whose users can access the spec.
Privilege: Allow user to switch enterprises
- When creating or editing a spec, open the Scopes tab
- Select scopes to allow access to users of the enterprises included in the scopes
When you have finished working with the spec, click Accept
Define where a spec can be used
To define where a spec can be used, select allowed locations. Users of enterprises that are allowed to access a location can work with the specs allowed in the location.
Privilege: Allow user to switch enterprises
To manage allowed locations:
- Go to Apps library → Virtual appliance specs
- Select the spec, click the Options button, and select Edit
- Go to Locations → select locations
- If the spec should be available in all current and future locations, select Use all locations.
- To restrict the spec to a group of current locations:
- Clear the Use all locations checkbox
- Select the Locations where the spec will be available for use
Troubleshooting spec locations
- If another user has already assigned locations that you cannot administer and access, then you can maintain or deselect these locations.
- If you deselect locations that you cannot administer or acccess, you cannot add them again
When designing a virtual appliance for use in more than one location, please consider the following:
- Support for multiple disks in the provider
- Public networks in private cloud will be translated to floating IPs in public cloud and vice versa
- A range of IP addresses may be reserved by an SDN system or cloud provider
- The number of NICs allowed or required per VM may vary
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