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Configure and remove VMs

When you deploy, you’ll select the hardware profile. To search for templates in Azure ARM, the format for a template ID is {region}/{provider}/{name}/{version}. The Name of the VM in Azure is in the format ABQ_uuid and you cannot change it.

Reconfigure VMs

• You can edit deployed VMs to: attach and detach firewalls and load balancers, change hardware profiles, and reconfigure NICs
  • • The platform may require you to power off a VM to make changes to Multi-NIC configurations that were created in the Azure portal
    • You cannot change the order of NICs on Azure after you deploy a VM

Power on VM

Power off VM

Reset VM

Pause and resume VM

Take a VM snapshot

To create a VM snapshot (instance) you must first log in to the VM and generalize it using Sysprep. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource. Then you should power it off and create the snapshot in the usual way. Note: after you generalize the VM, you cannot power it on again.

Remote access

Depending on template type, for example:

• RedHat: template user/password
• Ubuntu: Using your SSH key registered in Abiquo, or template user/password

Create and delete networks

• Each Abiquo VDC will map to an Azure ARM virtual network
• An Abiquo private network will map to a subnet in the VDC network
• Users can allocate and assign public IPs (as in AWS)
  • The platform will onboard and synchronize dynamic public IPs
  • The platform supports basic SKU public IPs. It does not support standard SKU public IPs

Create and delete VDCs

• Abiquo will not be locked to a single resource group and will be able to manage and onboard existing resources regardless of the resource group they belong to
• Each Abiquo VDC will map to an Azure ARM virtual network

Create and manage firewall policies

• The platform supports one firewall per VM
• When onboarding VMs, if the VM and firewall are not in the same VDC, the platform will not assign the firewall to the VM

Use Chef

Enterprise Chef or your own server

Use Chef attributes

Load balancing

See Azure load balancers table

To onboard VMs, the enterprise must have credentials registered.

• Abiquo supports monitoring with Azure built-in metrics
• You can also use the Abiquo monitoring server and Abiquo collectd plugin, which can be installed using the Abiquo Chef cookbook. See Use collectd plugin for custom metrics