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Adding a Resource

Overview

An Organization Administrator can access:

  • Public Catalogs
  • Your Private Catalogs

Catalogs can contain:

  • vApp templates
  • Support files in ISO format

Public Catalogs

Public catalogs provide templates for ready-to-deploy vApps.

These vApps contain a VM with an OS or middleware already installed or preconfigured. For External Clients, here are the catalogs available from the Content Hub / Catalogs space.

  • Orange-Linux Contains pre-installed VMs with the most common supported Linux distributions (Debian, Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu).
  • Orange-Windows This catalog contains pre-installed VMs with the most common supported Windows distributions.

  • cse-tkgm-template This catalog contains VMs pre-installed with container management software; used to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.

For Internal Clients, here are the available catalogs:

  • Orange-Linux-Internal Contains virtual machines pre-installed with the most common supported Linux distributions (Ubuntu, RHEL, OBS Master, PLATON_RHEL Models).
Library of pre-installed virtual machines in the internal catalog 'Orange-Linux'
  • Orange-Windows-Internal This catalog contains virtual machines pre-installed with the most common supported Windows distributions (W2K19, W2K22, Windows OBS Master, Windows PLATON Models, SQL ENT/STD Models).
Library of pre-installed virtual machines in the 'Orange-Windows' internal catalog

Private Catalogs

Each client manages their own Private Catalogs.

How to create your Catalogs

Select Content Hub / Catalogs / NEW

  • Enter a Name, a Description
  • Activate the option Pre-provisioning in a specific storage strategy if you want to deploy your catalog on a specific storage.

Click OK

Creating a catalog

If you need to share the Catalog with other Users:

Select the catalog.

Click on the SHARE button and SAVE.

Add a Media File (.ISO)

Select Content Hub / Catalogs / Support / ADD. Choose the Catalog and the File to Upload.

Click OK.

Uploading a media file (.iso)

Add a vApp Template (.OVA)

Select Content Hub / Catalogs / vApp Templates / ADD

Choose the File to Upload and NEXT.

Selecting a source for adding a vApp template (.ova)

At the verification step, click on NEXT and specify:

  • Template Name
  • The Target Catalog

and NEXT. Check the information and click on FINISH. Verify that the Template has been uploaded to the Catalog.

Delete a Catalog

From Content Hub / Catalogs, select the Catalog, click on ACTIONS / Delete Catalog.