Operations on Container Samples

You may want to list the Container samples that are currently available on any of the Hardware Nodes registered in Infrastructure Manager. The whole list of Container samples present on your Hardware Nodes is given in the Container Samples table on the Container Samples page:

Column Name	Description
Name	The name of the Container sample.
Platform	The platform (Linux or Widows) on which the Node storing the sample is based and the type of Container that can be created on base of this sample.
Architecture	The microprocessor architecture of the Node where the sample is stored.
Description	The explanatory text intended to help users understand the Container sample purpose or to provide additional information on it.
OS Template	The operating system the Container sample is based on.

Parallels Infrastructure Manager allows you to download any Container sample from your Hardware Node onto your computer. Downloading a Container sample may come handy when you need to forward the Container sample file by email or other network means or upload the sample onto another Hardware Node. Clicking the diskette icon in the Save column opposite a sample saves it as a text file on your hard disk.

To edit a sample, click its name in the Name column.

To facilitate working with Container samples, you may have the Container Samples table display only those Container samples that have the corresponding name or a certain word in their comment. On top of the table, click the Show Search link to display the fields where you can specify the parameters your Container sample should meet; then click on the Search link. To view all available Container samples, click on the Show All link to the right of the parameter fields. By default, 20 Container samples are listed, but you may have more/less Container samples displayed by clicking the corresponding link above the table. You can have Parallels Infrastructure Manager display only those parameters you need at the moment. To show or hide certain columns, click the Select Columns link and select the parameters you want to be displayed or clear those you do not.

The Parallels Infrastructure Manager toolbar buttons this screen loads are placed there to let you quickly perform the following operations.

to create a new sample, click New and select Sample;
to upload a Container sample onto your Hardware Node from the computer running the current Infrastructure Manager session as a text file, click Upload;
to create a new sample by dividing the Hardware Node resources by a specified number of Containers, click the Split Hardware Node link;
there can be situations when the existing Container sample does not fully satisfy your requirements. In this case Infrastructure Manager provides you with the opportunity to quickly create a new Container sample that will inherit all the properties of the Container sample installed on the Hardware Node. After that, you can adjust its properties to meet your demands. To this effect, select the checkbox opposite the corresponding Container sample and click Clone.
to set a Container sample to be used as the default basis for creating a new Container, select the checkbox opposite the corresponding Container sample and click the Set as default button.
to delete those Container samples that are not needed any more, select the checkboxes next to the corresponding Container samples and click Delete.

If you are planning to have users contacting you for Containers to be created on their personal requests, click Workflow on the Infrastructure Manager left menu and open the screen where you can enable or disable the Container requesting and choose the Container samples you want to be available for Containers requests.

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