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The Abiquo Walkthrough presents the main aspects of the cloud platform to the cloud administrator and includes instructions for the basic configuration tasks.

Take a guided tour of the cloud platform and try key platform tasks, from creating a datacenter to launching a VM.

Introduction

Using Abiquo, service providers and enterprises can build multicloud environments for IAAS. It is a flexible platform where you can provide controlled self-service to your cloud users. The user interface is intuitive and easy-to-use. Users can create new virtual environments by simply dragging and dropping templates or using application blueprints. Administrators can completely whitelabel the user interface with corporate branding at the tenant level.

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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Create a datacenter

Customers wish to leverage existing virtualized infrastructure. Abiquo can manage a pool of IT resources (servers, networking and storage) that are in the same physical location on the same Local Area Network (LAN).

To create a new private cloud datacenter:

  1. Go to Infrastructure view

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  2. Go to the Private tab, click the + add button

  3. Enter the Name of the datacenter and the Location. Click Next

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  4. Enter the IP address of the monolithic Abiquo server, and click Duplicate IP addresses to copy the remote service locations

  5. Click Accept to use this remote services configuration for the datacenter.

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A new Datacenter is created with all available resources managed by Abiquo.

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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Create a public cloud region

Note: For vCloud Director, you must enter the API endpoint and the public cloud credentials in order to retrieve the public cloud regions (for example, in vCloud this is equivalent to a Provider or Org VDC).

To create a new public cloud region

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Public

  2. Click the + add button

  3. Enter the Name for the region, select the public cloud Provider and mark the checkboxes for the Region(s) you wish to use. Click Next.

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  4. Enter the IP address of the monolithic Abiquo server. Click Duplicate IP addresses to copy the remote service location.

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  5. Click Save to use this remote services configuration for the datacenter.

Abiquo creates new public cloud region(s) with all available resources managed by Abiquo. New public cloud regions are named first with the name that the user enters, and then with this name and a suffix of _1, _2, for example, AWS, AWS_1, AWS_2, and so on.



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