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This page is a guide for cloud administrators to provision tenants in private cloud. Before you provision tenants, provision infrastructure. See Infrastructure provisioning guide. |
Flow chart
This flow chart describes the basic process for provisioning infrastructure and tenants.
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Before you create tenants, you should do these steps:
Add infrastructure to the platform as described in the Infrastructure provisioning guide
Configure the platform in Configuration View including: Configure two factor authentication
Prepare enterprise themes for white-labelling following the Abiquo Branding Guide
Create roles and scopes
Create pricing models
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Introduction to user roles
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Create a user role
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Introduction to user scopes
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Create a scope
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Manage scopes with the API
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Create a basic enterprise
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Create a pricing model
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Assign a pricing model to the enterprise
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Create a tenant administrator user
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Provision networks
This section describes how to manage datacenter networks in Abiquo. It explains the basic datacenter network concepts and links to datacenter network pages.
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Create public networks
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Create an external network
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Create static routes for external and public networks
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Add IP addresses to external and public networks
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Make IP addresses available
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Create unmanaged networks
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Create a NAT network
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Display networks
You can scroll through the network list using the page number and arrow buttons at the bottom of the list. And you can filter the list by entering text and wildcards to search for in network names.
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The platform administrator will generally create virtual datacenters for tenants when accounting is by virtual datacenter.
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You can automate the process of creating virtual datacenters using the Abiquo API. See How to create virtual datacenters and VMs via API
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You can import and capture VMs from private cloud manually and you can also automate the process of capturing VMs using the Abiquo API. See How to capture a remote virtual machine from a managed hypervisor
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Introduction to import and capture VMs
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Prepare to capture VMs
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Retrieve VMs from a physical machine
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Capture a VM
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Configure backups
Abiquo offers optional backup plugins that support popular backup systems such as Veeam and Networker. For information about configuring these plugins, see Abiquo backup plugins. After the plugins are configured, you can manage Abiquo backups in Infrastructure view on the Backup policies tab as described here.
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General info
Backup description
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Name | Name of the backup policy that users can select |
Code | The Code that identifies the policy and that must be unique in the datacenter. Abiquo may use the Code attribute to match policies that the administrator already created in the backup system |
Description | Description of the backup policy to help users identify it |
After you enter the General info, select the backup type:
The Abiquo backup integrations only support Complete backups
Complete backup
Example backup configuration of Complete backup
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Defined hour | Backup at a defined date and time. Date format is yyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss +0000. The Veeam backup integration does not support this option |
Daily | Backup every day at a defined time. Time format is HH:mm:ss +0000 |
Monthly | A backup every month at the defined time. When the user enters a time it is in the format HH:mm:ss, and the user must select the UTC offset. This option is designed to enable the system administrator to define the monthly backup day in the backup integration. |
Hourly | A backup at an interval of hours. Enter an integer less than 24. |
Weekly planned | A backup every week on defined days at a defined time. When the user enters a value, the format is HH:mm:ss, and the user must select the UTC offset. |
For each field in the backup type, the Cloud Admin can choose how to set the values:
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Fixed | The value is set by the Cloud Admin as part of the backup policy |
Don't apply | The value is set by the backup system |
Define in VM | The user must set the value and will require the appropriate privileges |
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Configure backup properties
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Create a backup policy
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Optional additional tenant configuration
To allow specific tenants to access backup policies and hardware profiles:
Go to Users → edit the enterprise
Go to Datacenters → select the Allowed datacenter or public cloud region
Go to Hardware profiles and/or Backups as required
Enable and/or select the desired options
For more details, see Configure an enterprise in a cloud location
General info
Backup description
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Name | Name of the backup policy that users can select |
Code | The Code that identifies the policy and that must be unique in the datacenter. Abiquo may use the Code attribute to match policies that the administrator already created in the backup system |
Description | Description of the backup policy to help users identify it |
After you enter the General info, select the backup type:
The Abiquo backup integrations only support Complete backups
Complete backup
Example backup configuration of Complete backup
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Field | Description |
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Defined hour | Backup at a defined date and time. Date format is yyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss +0000. The Veeam backup integration does not support this option |
Daily | Backup every day at a defined time. Time format is HH:mm:ss +0000 |
Monthly | A backup every month at the defined time. When the user enters a time it is in the format HH:mm:ss, and the user must select the UTC offset. This option is designed to enable the system administrator to define the monthly backup day in the backup integration. |
Hourly | A backup at an interval of hours. Enter an integer less than 24. |
Weekly planned | A backup every week on defined days at a defined time. When the user enters a value, the format is HH:mm:ss, and the user must select the UTC offset. |
For each field in the backup type, the Cloud Admin can choose how to set the values:
Value | Description |
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Fixed | The value is set by the Cloud Admin as part of the backup policy |
Don't apply | The value is set by the backup system |
Define in VM | The user must set the value and will require the appropriate privileges |