Import and configure virtual machine templates as the source for the virtual machines deployed on Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform.
If you have created shared repositories, then import templates into one of those shared repositories. If you have not created shared repositories, then import templates into the local repository on one of the local nodes.
You can import assemblies that contain one or more templates. When you import a template or assembly into a shared repository, select a node that you want to perform the operation. Select the node carefully to avoid overloading the node. After you create the repository, the repository becomes available to both nodes, regardless of which node performs the import.
Templates imported into local nodes use the repository name supplied in the import command to identify the node that completes the import, and that provides the storage. On Node 0, the local repository is named odarepo1 and on Node 1, the local repository is named odarepo2. If you want to import a template to both local repositories, then you must provide a different template name when you import the template into the second node.
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You cannot create or clone templates directly on Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform. Find virtual machine templates at the following URL:
If you import an assembly that contains more than one template, then the command automatically modifies the template name that you provide, so that all template names remain unique. The first template you import has the number "1" appended to the name. The second template as the number "2" appended, and additional templates have 3, 4, 5 and so on appended in sequence.
After you import a virtual machine template, you can customize the template using OAKCLI commands.