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To create an Abiquo public cloud region for GCP, follow the same easy process as for other providers in the multi-cloud platform. See Create a public cloud region.

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After you create a region, to use the region, add GCP credentials to each enterprise.
For more details, see Obtain Google Cloud Platform credentials and Add public cloud credentials for a tenant 

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Hardware profiles

When you add the first set of credentials, the platform will onboard the hardware profiles from GCP. GCP has some common families and types with the other providers, but there may be some gaps in the families and types. When users create VMs, the platform displays only the available families and types for selection.

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Users can create a firewall policy in the myCloud view in Virtual datacenters or in the Global view, which requires the privilege to Manage global networks. Users should be aware of the limitations on firewall names as for other entities in GCP. See GCP entity naming conventions. Users must select a firewall direction (incoming or outgoing) and enter a source or target in CIDR format. Users must also select allow or deny for the firewall type. Users must enter a priority, and for a higher priority, users should enter a lower number. There is no default in Abiquo but in GCP the default is 1000. Users can also enable Firewall rule logging in GCP. See Create a firewall policy in GCP

When users configure a VM, if they have the privilege to Assign firewalls to virtual machines, the platform displays all the tenant's GCP firewall policies that are managed by Abiquo. So the user experience here is very similar to the user experience in other public cloud providers. If users do not have the privilege to Assign firewalls to virtual machines, then Abiquo will enforce the default firewall. 

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On the Monitoring tab the platform displays the metrics available in Google Cloud Platform and users can select the metrics to display. For more details, see Display VM metrics. By default, Abiquo gets metrics from Google Cloud Platform every 5 minutes.

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