Application templates

An application template is a gold master, sys-prepped image of an application instance. Templates facilitate the easy and instantaneous creation of application instances, and a single template can be used to create any number of instances.

In the ThinkAgile CP Cloud Controller, infrastructure admin users and VDC manager users can create application templates in several ways:

• Create a new template from an existing application instance.

• Import a VM from a .VMDK, .VHD, .VHDx, .IMG, .OVA, .QCOW2, .QED, or .RAW and save it as a template.

  Note

  Make sure that you cleanly shut down the source virtual machine (VM) before importing the disk file(s).

• Download a template from the Lenovo Cloud Marketplace.

  For more information about the Lenovo Cloud Marketplace, see the following topic:

  Lenovo Cloud Marketplace

For more information about managing application templates, see the following topics:

• View templates
  ThinkAgile CP has three types of template repositories.
• Manage application templates
  You can perform actions on templates, such as creating an instance from a template, copying a template, or deleting a template. Infrastructure admin users can manage templates that are stored in Organization Templates and templates stored in VDC Templates. VDC manager users can manage templates stored in VDC Templates for VDCs to which they have access.