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Abiquo offers a single cloud console for your public clouds and private data centers. And it enables you to present your customers with a single cloud bill!

Moreover, Abiquo offers the building blocks for a customized cloud service, so you can select use the features that best match your business goals. 

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The platform presents a number of services to the cloud consumers to provide cloud services, and to enable the use of integration and automation solutions on top of them:

• The Server manages the platform and delivers service as defined by cloud administrators

• The API provides access to the platform functionality, allowing integration or automation

• The self-service Apps library provides VM templates and blueprints to run on the platform and use its resources

• The UI allows cloud consumers to use the platform through the Abiquo Server

• Dashboards, Reporting, Accounting, and Metering show how the platform is being used and enable billingBilling

Here is a basic functional map for private cloud.

You can access the Abiquo functionality through the Abiquo UI and or create your own integrations with the integration points.

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Abiquo in the cloud environment

As you can see from the functional map, Abiquo adds a thin unintrusive management layer to the existing cloud infrastructure and providers. There is no impact on any VMs that are already running. Abiquo manages resources in public cloud providers and private data centers, which may be distinct physical locations or logical groups of infrastructure within the same location

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. The Cloud Admins can add the physical and virtual infrastructure to Abiquo in a controlled way on their own timescales.

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You can access the Abiquo functionality through the Abiquo UI and or create your own integrations with the integration points.

Abiquo does more than just cloud provisioning!

In addition to the basic concepts, the following diagram shows some of the specialized feature sets that Abiquo can provide as part of a cloud service!

• Manage costs with budgets, pricing estimates, dashboards displaying usage and bills, and allocation limits. Synchronize price books from Amazon and Azure 
• Automatically scale out or in to adjust your workloads (and cloud bills) to your application requirements on any cloud 
• Manage automation on any cloud, using guest tools or the cloud-init standard
• Automate your infrastructure using Ansible and Puppet and using Abiquo integrations with Terraform and Chef
• Create your own integrations using the complete RESTful API, with Java and Python libraries. Use the Java stream client to follow event activity
    

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administrators

On the Abiquo multi-cloud IaaS platform, Cloud Administrators control the resourcesmanage resources, and grant controlled access to users for controlled self-service.

• Administrators register physical resources and public cloud services in the platform, then grant virtual resources to users. 
  • Administrators allow users to have self-service in the cloud. Administrators remain in control of the physical resources and public cloud services. 
• Administrators create Enterprises, which are the basic cloud tenants, and tenant hierarchies
  • Administrators allocate resources to enterprises and use policy to control access to resources, including user roles and privileges. 
    Cloud Administrators can automate and delegate tasks to manage the platform to resellers, for example.
• Administrators create the Apps library, which contains VM templates and application blueprints. 
  • The Apps library is the key to self-service on the platform, enabling users to easily consume the cloud resources in the virtual datacenters. Administrators can share templates and blueprints using tenant access control lists. This enables you to provide Software as a Service (SaaS) on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). And you can allow tenant administrators to upload their own templates or create their own blueprints.
• 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 Cloud Administrator can provide different service levels by using different technology stacks for different VDCs. 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. For example, read only access in public cloud.
• 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

Abiquo users can log in to the user interface and easily consume virtual resources through their virtual datacenters.

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