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Introduction to hardware profiles

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nameIntroduction to hardware profiles

Hardware profiles are a convenient way of displaying CPU and RAM values that enable you to simplify the configuration of VMs for your users. They also enable you to control available hardware configurations and to recommend suitable hardware configurations for VM templates. And you can restrict users to a set of recommended configurations for a template. Abiquo has a default set of hardware profile families for public and private cloud. 

  • In public cloud, you can synchronize the provider's profiles in the platform

  • In private cloud and public clouds without native hardware profiles, you can create and fully manage hardware profiles and their types in the platform

  • Some cloud providers may support both hardware profiles, and CPU and RAM, for example, vCloud Director

In private cloud, Abiquo supports dynamic hardware profiles for CPU and RAM, so the user can enter these values and the platform uses CPU and RAM prices for them. And the user can enter cores per socket.

In public cloud, you can onboard and synchronize price lists of hardware profiles and incorporate them into your pricing models. Note that the Azure API returns a value for cores per socket but the platform does not use this value.

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Display hardware profiles

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Synchronize hardware profiles with a provider

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In public cloud providers with hardware profiles, when you create a public cloud region and add credentials for an enterprise, Abiquo will automatically retrieve the hardware profiles for the public cloud region.

  • Provider hardware profiles are locked and you cannot edit them

  • In public cloud regions with provider hardware profiles that also support CPU and RAM, you can deactivate hardware profiles mode

  • The platform also registers if a hardware profile is Active and if it belongs to the Current generation

To synchronize hardware profiles: 

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Privileges: Access infrastructure view and PCRs, View public cloud region details, Manage enterprises

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Public → select Public cloud region → Servers view → Hardware profiles

  2. At the top right of the Hardware profiles pane, select an enterprise with a public cloud account

  3. Click the round arrows refresh button

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By default, for each enterprise with credentials, the hardware profiles mode is enabled. By default, all hardware profiles are available to all enterprises. 

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Classify hardware profiles in private cloud

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To help users to easily select the right hardware profile for their VMs, providers usually classify hardware profiles by family and type.

The platform contains one set of default families that are available in both public and private cloud.

In private cloud and in public cloud regions without native hardware profiles, you can also create your own hardware profile families and types that will be available in all of these locations.

To classify hardware profiles, first create families, then create types.

To create a hardware profile family or type:

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Private → select a datacenter → Hardware profiles 
    OR Go to Infrastructure → Public → select a region without native hardware profiles → Hardware profiles

  2. At the bottom of the Types list, click the + Add button and select Family or Type

  3. Complete the dialog as shown below and click Save

Create a hardware profile family

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Create a hardware profile type

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Create a hardware profile

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You can create Abiquo hardware profiles in private cloud datacenters and for public cloud providers that do not have provider hardware profiles, such as vCloud Director clouds.

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Privileges: Access infrastructure view and private DCs, View datacenter details, Manage datacenter infrastructure elements

To create a hardware profile:

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public → select a location →  Hardware profiles

  2. Click the + add button

  3. Enter the details of the hardware profile

  4. Click Save

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Field

Value

Family

Select a family to classify the hardware profile. The family can help users understand the main purpose of hardware profile

Type

Select a type to classify the hardware profile. The type can help users understand the performance specifications of hardware profile

Name

Enter a unique name for the hardware profile. Identify it to users who will select it for their VMs.

CPU

The number of virtual CPUs to assign to VMs using this hardware profile. The combination of CPU and RAM must be unique in the datacenter. For dynamic hardware profiles this is the default value.

Cores per socket

The number of cores per socket to use for supported hypervisors such as VMware. The number of CPUs must be divisible by this value. For dynamic hardware profiles this is the default value.

RAM

The amount of virtual RAM to assign to VMs using this hardware profile. The combination of CPU and RAM must be unique in the datacenter. Select RAM units of MB, GB or TB. For dynamic hardware profiles, this is the default value.

Dynamic

To allow the user to enter CPU and/or RAM values, select the Dynamic option/s. Pricing and billing of dynamic hardware profiles will include cost codes, and CPU and RAM usage pricing.

Cost code

For pricing and billing, select a cost code for the hardware profile. See Pricing view#Create a new cost code

Active

Select this checkbox to activate or deactivate the hardware profile

Note

Troubleshooting

  • The platform will only display active hardware profiles to make available to an enterprise but inactive hardware profiles may be shown if they were previously selected when active.

  • The platform will only display active hardware profiles for selecting the recommended profiles for a template.

  • Users can only work with active hardware profiles.

Current generation

Select this checkbox to mark that the hardware profile is compatible with current VM templates

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Set prices for hardware profiles

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  1. Create cost codes. See Pricing view#Create a new cost code

    1. For the Type select Hardware profiles or All

  2. Set cost code prices. See Pricing view#Create a new pricing model

  3. When you create or edit a hardware profile:

    1. Go to Cost codes

    2. Click +add and select a cost code

    3. Click Add

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Info

  1. For dynamic hardware profiles, the platform will also use the prices for CPU and RAM.

  2. You can set prices in a pricing model for individual hardware profiles in each datacenter.

  3. To onboard and synchronize prices from public cloud, see Synchronize public cloud price lists.

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