Allow a tenant to use hardware profiles

Hardware profiles can enable users to easily select appropriate hardware combinations for their virtual machines. Before you begin, you can create hardware profiles for the datacenter in Infrastructure view on the Hardware profiles tab. In public cloud, all hardware profiles may be automatically allowed.

To use hardware profiles:

Go to Users → create or edit an enterprise → Datacenters
Create and/or edit an allowed datacenter or allowed public cloud region → Hardware profiles
Select the checkbox to Enable hardware profiles mode for the tenant
Select the Hardware profiles that the enterprise will be allowed to use (available hardware profiles)

If a tenant enterprise does not have any hardware profiles available, then the tenant's users will not be able to deploy VMs
If a tenant enterprise already has VMs deployed when you enable hardware profiles, Abiquo will try to assign existing hardware profiles. If an existing profile is inactive, Abiquo will activate this profile and assign it. Otherwise, Abiquo will create a new hardware profile named ABQ_HP_{cpu}_{ram}_ID

After you enable hardware profiles for a tenant, you can do the following steps in the Apps library:

Check VM templates have hardware profiles within template CPU and RAM limits
Recommend hardware profiles for each template
Enable users to only work with recommended hardware profiles

See Modify a VM Template

Abiquo will now require users to select hardware profiles when they create VMs.

Disable hardware profile mode

You can disable hardware profiles mode if the provider also supports CPU and RAM. When you disable it for an enterprise in a datacenter, the hardware profile details will simply “disappear” from VMs, and users will work with CPU and RAM values again. When editing the enterprise, however, the profiles that you made available are still marked, in case you decide to enable hardware profiles again.

If you enable hardware profile mode again, Abiquo enables hardware profiles in the same way as when you first enabled hardware profiles. After re-enabling hardware profile mode, you should check templates and recommended hardware profiles.

Disable specific hardware profiles

To restrict enterprise access to a specific hardware profile, if the enterprise does not have any deployed VMs using it, you can edit the enterprise’s allowed datacenter and unselect the hardware profile in the available list.

You can also make Abiquo hardware profiles inactive in Infrastructure view, at any time and even if they are used in deployed VMs. See Hardware profiles#Prevent users from working with a hardware profile