Create a hardware profile

You can create Abiquo hardware profiles in private cloud datacenters and for public cloud providers that do not have provider hardware profiles, such as vCloud Director clouds.

Privilege: Access infrastructure view and private DCs, View datacenter details, Manage datacenter infrastructure elements

To create a hardware profile:

Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public → select a location → Hardware profiles
Click the + add button
Enter the details of the hardware profile
Click Save

Field

Value

Active

Select this checkbox to activate or deactivate the hardware profile

Troubleshooting

The platform will only display active hardware profiles to make available to an enterprise but inactive hardware profiles may be shown if they were previously selected when active.
The platform will only display active hardware profiles for selecting the recommended profiles for a template.
Users can only work with active hardware profiles.

For more details see GUI Create hardware profile