Hardware Profiles

Prerequisites

• Access Level: Admin, Super-admin.
• Permission Requirements:
• . Basic VM Interaction
  • View drives (inconsistent, see notes)
  • View hardware/image setups made available to them
  • View own VM configs and configs shared with them
  • View own VMs and VMs shared with them
• . VM Administration
  • View all VM configs in the system
  • Arbitrarily edit any VM config
  • View host machines and hardware information in any Libvirt realm
  • Create new hardware profiles (metadata)
  • Edit any hardware profile
  • Delete any hardware profile
  • Arbitrarily view logs from any VM

Access Hardware Profiles

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
3. Click the Hardware Profiles in the left panel.

View Basic Information of a Hardware Profile

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
3. Click the Hardware Profiles in the left panel.
4. Select the hardware profile you want to view.
5. Click the View button in the top right panel.
6. In the left panel, view the hardware profile's name, description, realm, source, cost function ID, cores, memory, and PCI & USB devices.

Create a New Hardware Profile

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
3. Click the Hardware Profiles in the left panel.
4. Click the Create new hardware profile button in the top right panel.
5. In the pop-up, enter the hardware profile name and realm.
6. Select cores, maximum memory, device name, ID, quantity, device vendor and type.
7. Click Add device button below.
8. Enter an optional description.
9. Click Create hardware profile.

note

You may add multiple devices per hardware profile as needed.

Edit a Hardware Profile

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
3. Click the Hardware Profiles in the left panel.
4. Select the hardware profile you want to edit.
5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
6. In the pop-up, edit the hardware profile name and realm.
7. Update cores, maximum memory, device name, ID, quantity, device vendor and type.
8. Click Add device button below to execute the changes.
9. Edit the optional description.
10. Once done, click Update hardware profile.

note

Editing hardware profiles from the front-end is only supported in Nutanix realms.

Delete Hardware Profile(s)

bulk-action

1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
3. Click the Hardware Profiles in the left panel.
4. Select the hardware profile(s) you want to delete.
5. Click the Delete button in the top right panel.
6. In the pop-up, click Delete.

note

Deleting hardware profiles from the front-end is only supported in Nutanix realms.