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| 1 | +About Virtual Appliances |
| 2 | +------------------------ |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +CloudStack allows users to deploy virtual appliances on VMware such as its been made directly though vCenter. |
| 5 | +Vendors of virtual appliances for VMware often produce ‘templates’ of their appliances in an OVA format. |
| 6 | +An OVA file contain disc images, as well as the configuration data of the virtual appliance and also at times a EULA which must be acknowledged. |
| 7 | +Virtual Appliances are supported only on VMware. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +Deployment options (configurations) |
| 10 | +----------------------------------- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +VMware templates can provide different deployment options in their OVF descriptor file. CloudStack obtains |
| 13 | +the different deployment options when the template is registered and it displays them to the users |
| 14 | +in the virtual machine deployment wizard, under the 'Compute Offering' section. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +After the user selects a deployment option, CloudStack lists the compute offerings which match or exceed the |
| 17 | +deployment options hardware requirements for CPU and memory. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +.. note:: |
| 20 | + All the custom unconstrained compute offerings are displayed, but those constrained custom offerings |
| 21 | + in which the maximum or minimum requirements for CPU and memory are supported by the selected deployment option. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +.. |vapps-deployment-opts.png| image:: /_static/images/vapps-deployment-opts.png |
| 24 | +.. |vapps-eulas.png| image:: /_static/images/vapps-eulas.png |
| 25 | +.. |vapps-networks.png| image:: /_static/images/vapps-networks.png |
| 26 | +.. |vapps-properties.png| image:: /_static/images/vapps-properties.png |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +The 'Compute Offering' section will be similar to this: |
| 29 | + |vapps-deployment-opts.png| |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +Network interfaces |
| 33 | +------------------ |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +In case the template requires the virtual appliance to connect different network interfaces, these are displayed in the 'Networks' section, similar to this: |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +|vapps-networks.png| |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +Properties |
| 41 | +---------- |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +If the template contains properties that require the user input, those are being displayed on the 'Properties' section, similar to this: |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +|vapps-properties.png| |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +End-user license agreements |
| 49 | +--------------------------- |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +If the template contains one or more end-user license agreements, the user must accept them prior to deploy their virtual appliance. |
| 52 | +If the license agreements are not accepted, then it is not possible to deploy a virtual appliance. |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +|vapps-eulas.png| |
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