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For reseller customer credentials, there may be different credentials to use for compute features and for billing only.

For details, see Obtain public cloud credentials.

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Modify user roles to add public cloud

Based on which public cloud providers and features you will offer, you should modify your roles to add new privileges to enable the new features.

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These lists contain some example privileges to consider. ALWAYS test your user roles in your own environment.

Users and tenant administrators

The privileges to consider for users and tenant administrators are as follows:

• Home

  • View bills

  • Display optimization dashboard tab

  • Display hybrid dashboard tab

  • Display VM cost view widget on Hybrid dashboard tab

• Virtual datacenters

  • Manage floating IPs (currently assigned to enterprise administrators)

  • Manage VPNs (currently assigned to enterprise administrators)

  • Manage classic firewalls (vCloud)

  • Manage virtual machine hard disks (vCloud)

  • Assign public IPs to VMs

  • Access public network tab

  • Manage public network elements

  • Assign external IPs to VMs (vCloud)

  • Access external network tab (vCloud)

  • Assign firewalls to virtual machines

  • Assign load balancers

• Apps library

  • Export a virtual machine template to public cloud region

• Users

  • Manage provider credentials

  • Manage virtual datacenter roles

  • Access budgets section

  • Manage budgets

Platform administrators

If your platform administrators do not have cloud administrator roles, please check that they have all the appropriate privileges for public cloud, which may include the user list plus the following privileges:

• Home

  • Manage bills

• Infrastructure

  • Manage public cloud regions

  • Access infrastructure view and PCRs

  • View public cloud region details

• Virtual datacenters

  • Manage default virtual datacenter firewall

  • Manage VDC default roles

• Users

  • Manage enterprise properties

  • Manage virtual datacenter roles

• Pricing

  • Add a cost code when editing a VM template

  • Access Pricing view

  • Manage pricing

  • Manage pricing credentials

• Control

  • View enterprise hierarchy

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Create a public cloud region

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Reseller hierarchy

In public cloud, when you have a reseller account, such as an Azure CSP or Amazon partner account, you can use a reseller hierarchy to manage your reseller customers.

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Create a reseller scope

If you are not using a tenant hierarchy in private cloud, create a new reseller scope. If you already have a reseller scope, check that your reseller scope is correctly configured for public cloud as described here.

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If you are not using a reseller hierarchy for private cloud, create a new reseller enterprise for public cloud.

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Notes and related links:

• Display cloud provider billing data, see Display cloud provider billing data

• Tenant metadata for reseller, see /wiki/spaces/doc/pages/338001921

• To onboard the prices of hardware profiles from public cloud, see Synchronize public cloud price lists

  • If you have pricing models assigned to reseller customers and you add public cloud pricing credentials for AWS or Azure, then Abiquo will automatically onboard hardware profile prices for them.

    • After the initial onboard, to stop the synchronization, you can stop the cron job that runs it

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