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Use Colt® Edge Private Cloud on VMware Cloud FoundationTM to create a virtual machine. You can create a virtual machine with a custom operating system (OS) configuration or from a template. After creating a virtual machine, you can create a vApp to serve as a container for virtual machines and change the password for a virtual machine.
To create a virtual machine:
Field | Description |
Name | Type a name for the virtual machine. |
Computer Name | Type a name for the computer. |
Description | Type a description of the virtual machine. |
Type | Select one of the following options:
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Field | Description |
OS family | Select the OS family for the virtual machine. |
Operating System | Select the OS for the virtual machine. |
Boot image | Select the boot image for the virtual machine. |
Virtual CPUs | Select the number of CPUs for the virtual machine. |
Cores per socket | Select the number of cores per socket. The options available depend on the number of CPUs selected for the virtual machine. |
Number of sockets | This field shows the number of sockets the virtual machine has available based on the number of CPUs evenly distributed over the cores per socket selected. |
Memory | Select the amount of memory for the virtual machine. This amount can be in either megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB). |
Use custom storage policy | Select this option to use a custom storage policy. Selecting this option enables the Storage Policy field. |
Storage | Select the Storage Policy and Size for the virtual machine storage. To add more storage disks, click ADD. To delete storage disks, click . |
Storage Policy | Select the storage policy for the virtual machine. |
Networking | Select the Network, Network Adapter Type, and IP Mode, and then toggle the Primary NIC (network interface card) option. |
Field | Description |
Templates | Select the template for the virtual machine OS. |
Storage | Select the Storage Policy for the virtual machine storage. To add more storage disks, click ADD. To delete storage disks, click . |
Click OK.
Colt Edge Private Cloud on VMware Cloud FoundationTM creates the virtual machine. The virtual machine appears at the top of the list on the Virtual Machines page.
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