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This Abiquo Cloud Walkthrough introduces the main concepts for Abiquo users and also presents describes Abiquo concepts and guides users through some basic steps that you can take to get started, so if you have access to the platform, you can follow along.
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To work with the cloud platform, you will use virtual datacenters (VDCs) to access your cloud resources and provision new virtual environments. A virtual datacenter is an abstraction of a physical datacenter that offers the same capabilities (such as In a virtual datacenter you can work with virtual resources, including network infrastructure, external storage systemsystems, backupbackups, security, etc) with the added and so on. A virtual datacenter also has the advantages of cloud computing:
- Virtualization
- Pay-as-you-go billing
- Quick scalability
- Technology and hardware abstraction.
This gives you the opportunity to run your applications in a more economical and flexible way because a A virtual datacenter offers the classical datacenter infrastructure as a service. A VDC contains , so you can run your applications more cheaply and with greater flexibility. In your VDC, you will find compute resources and other resources, such as volumes and public IP addresses that can be attached to virtual machines (VMs)IPs, that you an attach to your VMs. Each VDC has similar features and functionality and each VDC belongs to a private cloud datacenter or public cloud region. In private cloud, a VDC only uses a hypervisor of one hypervisor type . In only and in public cloud, a VDC can be created by the provider, e.g. in AWS a VDC corresponds to a VPC, or by the platform. Every virtual datacenter has similar features and functionality.
Screenshot: In the Virtual datacenters view, with the V. Datacenters list and the Virtual appliances tab that contains virtual appliance cards, open a virtual appliance
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To start the virtual appliance, click the Deploy virtual appliance button in the top right-hand corner of the Virtual machines panel. This will deploy and start the VMs in the virtual appliance. You can also deploy virtual appliances using the controls that appear when a virtual appliance is selected in the virtual datacenter view. When the Virtual appliance is deployed, the Deploy button becomes an Undeploy button or a Deploy all VMs button. To destroy all the VMs and all your data on the hard disks, click the Undeploy button. |
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