About Managing Catalogs
You can self-provision virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal (BM) servers using predefined catalog items. Only a system administrator can create a catalog. A catalog defines parameters, such as the cloud name and the group name to which the VM is bound.
The following folders are available by default. You cannot edit or delete them.
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Standard
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Advanced
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Service Container
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Bare Metal
To aid in managing catalogs, Cisco UCS Director allows you to group similar catalogs within a folder. While creating a catalog, you can choose to add it in a previously created folder, or create a new folder. A folder is visible in the system only when it contains a catalog.
The Manage Folder option on the Catalog page allows you to perform the following tasks:
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Edit a folder—Modify the name of a user-created folder or the folder icon for all folders. You cannot modify the name of a default folder.
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Delete a folder—Delete a folder from Cisco UCS Director. If this folder contains catalogs, then these catalogs are automatically moved into the folders that are available by default, based on the catalog type.
Default folders cannot be deleted.
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Re-order the list of folder—Change the order in which the folders are listed in the Catalog page. By default, folders are listed alphabetically.
Important |
If you have upgraded Cisco UCS Director to the latest version, then all catalogs created in prior versions are grouped into folders available by default, based on their catalog types. By default, catalogs are displayed in a tile view format. You can choose to have the catalogs displayed in a table view format as well. Use the options on the far right of the screen to switch between the table view and the tile view format. In the table view format, you can use the options to expand or collapse all folders. |