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As a true hybrid cloud system, Abiquo manages private and public clouds through a single user interface. It enables cloud administrators to manage the complexity of dealing with resources in multiple private datacenters datacenters and public cloud regions, and to control their use by using policies. Cloud Administrators deliver simplicity to cloud consumers by granting them resources and allowing grant resources to users and allow them controlled self-service in the cloud. This way, administrators Administrators remain in control of the physical resources , and consumers are abstracted from the location of the resourcesand they can offer cloud resources with abstracted resource locations.
Cloud Administrators allocate resources are allocated to Abiquo enterprises, which are the basic cloud tenant. Enterprises consume the cloud resources through virtual datacenters (VDCs), which are logical units bound to a single Abiquo datacenter and virtualization backend. By The Cloud Administrator can provide different service levels using different technology stacks in each VDC, the Cloud Administrator can provide different service levels.
Policies Administrators can be applied apply policies to VDCs to impose resource using allocation limits (controlling compute, network and storage resources) or define which defining the users within an enterprise can use a particular who can work with each VDC. Users take advantage of self-service by creating to create their own virtual appliances (VApps) within the VDCs. VApps are containers consisting of groups (like folders) with one or more virtual machines (VMs). The resources a consumer can use are controlled by the administrator using Administrators can control user resources with policy and privileges that can be are grouped into roles. For example, privileges determine whether if consumers can change CPU and memory resources for VMs or create additional storage volumes.
Simplicity is delivered through the Apps Library. The Apps library provides virtual machine Administrators use the Apps library to provide VM templates to users to , so they can consume the cloud resources in the virtual datacentersVDCs. It They can also provides provide application blueprints for a group of virtual machines VMs to make it easy for users to create new applications. Access to virtual machine Administrators control access to VM templates and blueprints is controlled by using resource scopes, which are tenant access control lists defined by cloud administrators. This enables the platform to provide Software as a Service (SaaS) on top of Infrastructure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Enterprise administrators may be allowed to upload their own images to the Apps Library, allowing them to bring their own software onto the Infrastructure platform.
The So the entire platform is controlled by policy that enables the cloud administrator to maintain control of the physical infrastructure whilst delivering controlled self-service to the consumers. Policy controls the amount of resources that are allocated to Enterprises and VDCs, where the resources are located, and how they can be used. Abiquo provides governance through dashboards in UI as well as reports showing how the infrastructure is being used and where virtual machines VMs exist on the platform.
Finally, all operations on the Abiquo platform are metered, meaning that all resources allocated or consumed are measured and tracked. This allows for accounting and billing of the cloud service usage. Pricing information enables charge-forward notifications to users of how much they are likely to be charged for the vApps VApps they create through self-service.
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