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Creating Appliances

This topic describes how to create a new appliance starting from templates or other appliances provided in CA AppLogic®.

If you want to build appliances from scratch -- from your own Linux image -- See the Appliance Kit section. This section has an appliance cookbook that describes several different ways on how to create your very own CA AppLogic® appliance.

This section contains the following topics:

OS Support Limitations

Design a Boundary

Define Multiple External Interfaces

Choose a Template

Create a Singleton

Configure the Appliance Boundary

Install and Configure Appliances

Review and Finalize the Boundary

Move the Appliance to a Catalog

Troubleshooting

Modifying Appliances to Use SCSI Disks

Distribution Installations

Appliance access to files on the grid controller