Organize VM Templates into Categories

In the Apps library, the VM templates can be classified into categories:

• Local categories belong to a single enterprise and cannot be seen or used by other enterprise
• Global categories are visible to all users and are marked with the text "(global)", and you will require the "Manage VM template global categories" privilege to manage them.

The predefined categories are "Applications servers", "Database servers", "Others", and "Web servers".  If you download a VM template from a remote repository and its category does not exist yet, the platform will create the new global category with this name.

The default global category is "Others" and you cannot delete this category. 

Administrators who can manage global categories can promote a local category to global. You cannot demote a global category to local or move local categories from one tenant to another. 

To create a VM template category:

1. Go to Apps library → Private or Public → select datacenter or public cloud region → Virtual machine templates
2. Check that there is no other category with the name you wish to use
3. Open the Categories menu
4. At the bottom of menu, click the + add button
5. Enter the category name
6. Optional: to create a global category, mark the checkbox to Make the category global
7. Click Save to continue
   

The new category will be added to the Categories list.

To add a VM template to a category:

1. Edit the template
2. Go to General
3. Select the category.

When you delete a category, all the templates belonging to this category will be changed to the category ''Others''.