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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

Reconfigure VMs

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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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You must power off the VM in Abiquo and after the snapshot you cannot power it on again. When a VM is used to take an snapshot, it becomes "generalized" in Azure. You cannot power on a generalized VM again in Azure, so all operations will fail with an error message. Future Abiquo releases will undeploy the VM after the snapshot to avoid confusion.

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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Create and delete VDCs

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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)

The enterprise must have credentials registered. Known issues with synchronization:

  • Synchronized VMs are returned without IPs, when they should have oen one private IP and one public IP
  • User cannot power off or undeploy synchronized VMs
VM monitoring and metrics With Abiquo monitoring server and Abiquo collectd plugin, which can be installed using the Abiquo Chef cookbook. See Use collectd plugin for custom metrics