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Introduction
Abiquo is a fully integrated multicloud management platform with a single cloud console for resource management and cloud budget and cost control.
The Abiquo platform is a cloud-agnostic management layer that sits above your cloud infrastructure and cloud providers. Abiquo supports VMware, AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and more!
Abiquo's cloud boosting features features work across private and public clouds and offer a true multicloud experience that is beyond cloud native. Abiquo's features are adapted to the cloud providers and also independent of them.
The following sections describe Abiquo's features and how Abiquo fulfills the Gartner CMP functional requirements in the areas of cloud management.
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Source: Gartner ®, “Solution Criteria for Cloud Management Tools”, Marco Meinardi, Alan Waite, Brian Adler, 20 August 2020. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission
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Abiquo features for resource management
For cloud resource management, to save the administrator staff costs of managing complex, different portals and technology, Abiquo offers the following features.
Simple, unified, provisioning, and orchestration that you can automate
Centralized multi-cloud inventory view for administrators and users, and multi-cloud tag management to help you find and manage inventory across the cloud
BaaS and DRaaS to directly offer your users local backup and disaster recovery without creating your own integrations, and automatically add services to the customer's bill!
Prepackaged configurations in blueprints (specs) that users can select, customize, and launch in any cloud
Multi-cloud monitoring and observability with support for custom application metrics, and users can receive notifications and create automation based on monitoring data.
Screenshot: Abiquo enables you to manage and inventory cloud resources
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Business features with multicloud budgets and cost control
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Abiquo is designed for business use and it meets your identity, security, and compliance needs with features such as:
Single sign on support
Role based access control
Policy for all clouds
Under these controls, Abiquo Service enablement can provide more or less self-service as required, and also support managed services and service automation.
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Screenshot: The customizable Abiquo dashboard displays public cloud costs that you can also use in multicloud budgets
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Abiquo integrates with your business and cloud systems
Abiquo is a complete cloud platform out of the box, with dashboards, event logs, event streaming, and built-in and custom reports. Abiquo is also extensible by integration. You can integrate Abiquo with your business processes, DevOps, and systems to create the right cloud to meet your business objectives. For example:
Configure and launch systems from an ITSM integration
Use the Workflow feature for approvals, to create configuration, or to update a CMDB.
This feature holds VM operations and sends a webhook to an integration with a workflow system
Access ticketing systems through an ITSM integration
Automate your VM configurations with cloud-init, cloudbase-init, and guest tools
And with Abiquo you can integrate to build PAAS, managed services, and more. For example, to build managed services Abiquo enables you to:
Restrict user access to virtual datacenters
Create read-only access, and other overrides of user roles per provider or virtual datacenter
Outsource user systems that will run on the user's virtual resources and are included in their single cloud bill
Deliver datacenter services through restricted networks and reserved IP addresses
Whitelabel the UI per customer or per reseller
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Abiquo cloud architecture concepts
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This page belongs to the Get Started section
For a more detailed description of Abiquo cloud architecture and installation types, see Abiquo Components
To try Abiquo in a PoC or other test environment, do these walkthroughs:
To try Abiquo from scratch, with no infrastructure in the platform, do Abiquo quick tutorial
For Abiquo manuals, see Abiquo Cloud Guides
For a full description of the platform and examples of administrator tasks, see Abiquo Walkthrough
If you have a demo license, see Add a license
To get some sample images into your Service catalogue, see Add Virtual Machine Templates to Abiquo
For guides to Abiquo features, see Abiquo features by version