Deploy a VM from anywhere

To make the multicloud platform even easier to work with, users can now create and deploy a VM just by clicking the new Add VM button on any screen.

The floating orange + Add VM button is in the bottom right corner of every screen. And users can also start in the template catalog (Apps library view) with a new option on the Options menu of each VM template.

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After you click the Add VM button, you will usually only need to choose a VDC and a VApp, and then select a template. If your user account has privileges to create VDCs and/or VApps, then you also do this as you go along. 

• Note: If you are using AWS, you will need to wait for Amazon to create the default VPC firewall because you cannot create a VM without a firewall

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After you select Create VM for a template, you may need to select a hypervisor, and then you will also need to select or create a VDC and a VApp.

After you create the VM, you can deploy it directly, or go to the virtual appliance, in order to edit the VM.

You can also choose to Open advanced configuration for your VM.

In Abiquo 5.1, to enable this feature you need to add the property "client.tmp.button.createvm.enabled": true  to the file  client-config-custom.json , the user must log out and log in again for the button to display (but the administrator does not need to restart any services).

In Abiquo 5.2, this feature is now enabled by default, with the property "client.createvmpopup.button.enabled" set to true in the client-config-default.json file. To disable the feature, set this property to false in the file client-config-custom.json file, and the platform will remove the button when the users log out and log in again and the administrator does not need to restart any services.