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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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API Documentation For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource RolesResource. |
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Introduction to user scopes
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Manage scopes with the API
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Go to Users
At the bottom of the Enterprises list, click the + add button to add an enterprise
On the General tab
Enter the customer Name
As the Default scope, set the tenant scope that will define the tenant hierarchy
The platform will automatically add this enterprise to the scope. Note that if you change the default scope of an enteprise, the platform will not remove the enterprise from its previous scope.
If the enterprise represents the tenant headquarters or similar, select Key node
Go to Allocation limits and set resource usage limits for the enterprise
Include Page Hard and soft limits Hard and soft limits 
On the Datacenters tab, drag and drop providers, datacenters, or regions to Allowed datacenters, to allow the tenant's users to work in them.
To configure the tenant in each allowed location, see Configure an enterprise in a cloud location
On the Properties tab, for each tenant metadata property, enter a Key and Value, and click Add. See Enterprise properties general table and Display cloud provider billing data
Optionally, add credentials for public cloud. See Add credentials for public cloud
Click Save
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See Create a new pricing model
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Assign a pricing model to the
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Create a tenant administrator user
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The platform administrator will generally create virtual datacenters for tenants when accounting is by virtual datacenter.
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See Manage virtual datacenters
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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Your cloud users can then configure backups for their VMs. See VM backups.
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