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- Register physical resources and public cloud services in the platform.
- Administrators grant virtual resources to users, allowing them controlled self-service in the cloud. Administrators Administrators remain in control of the physical resources and public cloud services
Administrators can offer cloud resources with abstracted resource locations.
- Administrators grant virtual resources to users, allowing them controlled self-service in the cloud. Administrators Administrators remain in control of the physical resources and public cloud services
- Create Enterprises, which are the basic cloud tenants.
- Administrators allocate resources to Abiquo enterprises. Administrators Administrators can control user access to resources with policy, and with privileges that are grouped into roles.
Cloud Administrators can automate and delegate tasks to manage the platform with custom roles (reseller administrators, tenant administrators, and so on)
- Administrators allocate resources to Abiquo enterprises. Administrators Administrators can control user access to resources with policy, and with privileges that are grouped into roles.
- Create the Apps library, which contains VM templates and applications blueprints.
- The Apps library is the key to self-service on the platform, enabling users to easily consume the cloud resources in the VDCs. Administrators Administrators control access to VM templates and VApp spec blueprints using resource scopes, which are tenant access control lists. This This enables the platform to provide Software as a Service (SaaS) on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Enterprise Enterprise administrators may be allowed to upload their own images to the Apps library, in order to bring their own software onto the platform.
- Administrators create Virtual Datacenters (VDCs) where users will consume their cloud resources.
- VDCs are logical groups of resources bound to a single Abiquo datacenter and virtualization backend, or public cloud provider. The The Cloud Administrator can provide different service levels by using different technology stacks for different VDCs. Administrators Administrators can apply policies to VDCs using allocation limits (controlling compute, network and storage) or defining the users within an enterprise who can work with each VDC, and their level of access.
- Administrators create pricing models
- They enter pricing information for billing that also enables them to offer pricing estimates to users.
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- Users take advantage of self-service to create their own virtual appliances (VApps) within the VDCs.
- VApps are groups (like folders) with one or more virtual machines (VMs). Users Users can build their own configurations or take advantage of application blueprints to deploy ready-made configurations. They can then automate and scale their VM configurations.
- Users have controlled self-service because the entire platform is controlled by policy
- This enables the Cloud Administrator to maintain control of the physical infrastructure and public cloud services. Policy Policy controls the amount of resources that are allocated to Enterprises and VDCs, where the resources are located, and how they can be used.
- Users can obtain charge-forward notifications of the cost of their VApps.
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