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AlWS This table describes AWS features offered in the public cloud integration as well as Abiquo features that add important multi-cloud functionality.


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AWS Feature

Support

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Partner accounts(tick)Add a partner account for each hierarchy of tenants
All regions(tick)Amazon may require separate credentials for groups of regions.
For example, for regions in China the user will need separate credentials and they should select the appropriate provider, such as "Amazon (CHINA)".
Hardware profiles(tick)

Onboard hardware profile families and types

Pricing(tick)Onboard prices for hardware profiles, manage a markup, and use prices in estimates, usage metering, and billing
Billing dashboard(tick)Obtain and display the provider billing data including the latest bills and estimated bill.
See Hybrid for examples, and for configuration instructions see Display cloud provider billing data. 
Billing

Support

(tick)Incorporate AWS billing data into a single bill for the multi-cloud platform



Configure and remove VMs

(tick)

When you deploycreate a VM, you’ll select the hardware profile

Reconfigure VMs

(tick)

 

Power on VM

(tick)

 

Power off VM

(tick)

 

Reset VM

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Pause and resume VM

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Storage(tick)
  • Volumes are EBS disks. Users can onboard and create volumes, and attach them to VMs as auxiliary disks
  • After users detach auxiliary disks from VMs, the synchronization process will make them available in the virtual datacenter
  • Users can move disks between virtual datacenters and release them to the region
  • When users undeploy or delete a VM, the synchronization process will make auxiliary disks available in the virtual datacenter
  • Onboarding You can onboard a VM with delete on termination disksWhen you undeploy or delete the VM, the platform will destroy these disks.
  • When you detach the disks from the deployed VM, the platform will synchronize them as volumes in the virtual datacenter
  • EBS Encryption
    • You can create encrypted disks in the platform. If your AWS account has encryption set as default, all EBS disks will be created with encryption
    • The platform will use encryption when you create an instance template of an encrypted disk, and when you create a VM from this template
    is supported

See Abiquo and AWS storage

Take a VM snapshot

(tick)

The VM must be powered off in Abiquo, although the actual VM is not powered off.  
You can only create an instance (private EBS image) from a VM using an EBS image.

Remote access

(tick)

Using Open a console window to access your VM using your SSH key registered in Abiquo

Create and delete networks

(tick) 

Users can specify the network address space

Create and delete VPNs(tick)From private cloud (NSX) to AWS

Create and delete VPCs

(tick)

 

Create and manage firewall policies

(tick) 

AWS security groups

Use Chef

(tick)

Enterprise Chef or your own server

Use Chef attributes

(tick)

 

VM bootstrap scripts

(tick)

Users can work with shell scripts or cloud-init to automate VM configuration  

VM variables(tick)The variables are stored on the virtual machine VM filesystem in ~/vm-variables.rc

Load balancing

(tick)

Abiquo supports Classic Load Balancers Balancers

Import and synchronize

(tick)
  • To onboard resources, the public cloud region must be created in AWS and enterprise must have credentials registered
      • Limitation: You can only display Classic VMs, you cannot onboard them
  • Entities that you can onboard and synchronize: VPCs, VMs, networks, firewalls, load balancers
VM monitoring and metrics(tick)With Abiquo monitoring and metrics server
Deploy AMI from AWS marketplace-Abiquo cannot deploy an AMI from the AWS marketplace because Abiquo cannot display the EULA to the end user.
However, you can deploy in the Amazon cloud native interface and onboard in the platform.
Import VM template
from private cloud datacenter		(tick)Use compatible templates prepared according to provider instructions. See VM Template MobilityDashboard 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. 
Automated actions(tick)Abiquo can run action plans on VMs
Autoscaling(tick)Abiquo can automatically clone VMs or undeploy VMs to match your changing application needs