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Abiquo offers these features in the public cloud integration with Microsoft Azure RM (ARM) Compute.

Azure RM requires separate credentials for regions in China.

Note

Azure does not let you change the Name and ResourceGroup of a VM. It uses the Name and the ResourceGroup to identify the VM. For Azure, the platform also uses the Name to identify the VM. The VM Name in Azure is always in the ABQ_uuid format.

When the user creates a VM in the platform, by default the friendly name of the VM is the name of the VM template. The user can then edit this label to identify their VM. In Azure, the friendly name is stored as a VM tag. You can easily display these tags in the Azure portal, simply follow the instructions in the Azure documentation.

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Azure ARM Feature

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Configure and remove VMs

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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

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  • You can edit deployed VMs to: attach and detach firewalls and load balancersWhen the VM is not deployed or powered off, you can reconfigure NICs and hardware profiles, change hardware profiles, and reconfigure NICs
      • Note the platform may require you to power off a VM to make changes to Multi-NIC configurations from the Azure portal

Power on VM

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Power off VM

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Reset VM

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Pause and resume VM

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Take a VM snapshot

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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

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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

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  • 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 Broker will onboard and synchronize dynamic public IPs.

Create and delete VDCs

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  • 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

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Use Chef

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Enterprise Chef or your own server

Use Chef attributes

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VM bootstrap scripts(tick) 
VM variables(tick)Stored as node metadata.

Load balancing

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Import and synchronize VMs(tick)

To onboard VMs, the enterprise must have credentials registered. The storage of the VMs no longer uses the storage accounts and blob disks. Abiquo now uses the managed disks APIs

VM monitoring and metrics(tick)
  • 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 
Dashboard billing widgets(tick)The Hybrid tab of the Home dashboard view can display public cloud billing information, including the latest bills and estimated bill. See Hybrid and for configuration instructions see Display cloud provider billing data. 

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