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Introduction
Abiquo is a fully integrated multicloud management platform with a single cloud console for resource management and cloud budget and cost control.
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Abiquo features for resource management
For cloud resource management, to save the administrator staff costs of managing complex, different portals and technology, Abiquo offers the following features.
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Screenshot: Abiquo enables you to manage and inventory cloud resources
Business features with multicloud budgets and cost control
For cloud budget and cost control, Abiquo's clear centralized dashboard displays all costs broken down by service and recommends how users can optimize their resources. The dashboard can display your estimated bill for each public cloud provider. Administrators can create multicloud budgets to manage costs. This saves administration staff costs of obtaining cost visibility and applying spending limits in different portals and helps you to avoid stray resources that can lead to surprise giant bills!
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Screenshot: The customizable Abiquo dashboard displays public cloud costs that you can also use in multicloud budgets
Abiquo integrates with your business and cloud systems
Abiquo is a complete cloud platform out of the box, with dashboards, event logs, event streaming, and built-in and custom reports. Abiquo is also extensible by integration. You can integrate Abiquo with your business processes, DevOps, and systems to create the right cloud to meet your business objectives. For example:
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- Restrict user access to virtual datacenters
- Create read-only access, and other overrides of user roles per provider or virtual datacenter
- Outsource user systems that will run on the user's virtual resources and are included in their single cloud bill
- Deliver datacenter services through restricted networks and reserved IP addresses
- Whitelabel the UI per customer or per reseller
Abiquo cloud architecture concepts
Adding Abiquo to your environment does not impact on any virtual resources that are already running. Cloud Administrators can add their infrastructure and providers to Abiquo in a controlled way on their own timescales. The Abiquo platform servers are an Abiquo API Server (for central management), a set of Abiquo Remote Services for each datacenter/public cloud region, and a Monitoring Server. In private cloud, Abiquo will also use a Service catalogue disk folder to store software templates.
The Abiquo cloud management services perform actions are based on user actions or automation. Abiquo checks your infrastructure and providers to update its database without making any changes to your cloud resources. And you can easily check who has done what in the Events view!
Next, the Abiquo Componentscomponents section provides a more detailed introduction to the Abiquo cloud architecture.
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This page belongs to the Get Started section
- For a more detailed description of Abiquo cloud architecture and installation types, see Abiquo Components
- To try Abiquo in a PoC or other test environment, do these walkthroughs:
- To try Abiquo from scratch, with no infrastructure in the platform, do Abiquo Quick Tutorialquick tutorial
- For Abiquo manuals, see Abiquo Cloud Guides
For a full description of the platform and examples of administrator tasks, see Abiquo Walkthrough
If you have a demo license, see Add a license
To get some sample images into your Service catalogue, see Add Virtual Machine Templates to Abiquo
For guides to Abiquo features, see Abiquo features by version
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