Abiquo offers these features in the public cloud integration with Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Compute.
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Configure and remove VMs | | When you create a VM, you’ll select the hardware profile. The Name of the VM in Azure is the platform's VM label (friendly name). It must meet the Azure naming criteria and you cannot change it after deployment. |
Onboard templates | | To search for templates in Azure ARM, the format for a template ID is /Subscriptions/{subscription}/Providers/Microsoft.Compute/Locations/{region}/Publishers/Canonical/ArtifactTypes/VMImage/Offers/{offer}/Skus/{sku}/Versions/{version} |
Reconfigure VMs | | |
Power on VM | |
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Power off VM | | Abiquo supports power off and deallocate of VMs. A deallocated VM is in the powered OFF state, and it has the deallocated attribute is set to true . |
Reset VM | |
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Pause and resume VM | |
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Storage | | Volumes are Azure Managed Disks. Users can onboard and create volumes, and attach them to VMs After users detach volumes from VMs or delete VMs, the synchronization process will make the volumes available in the public cloud region Users can move volumes between virtual datacenters and release them to the region Azure does not support premium storage for some hardware profiles. The platform does not enable you to configure VMs with premium storage Abiquo does not onboard VMs with Azure Unmanaged Disks but it will log a warning message
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Take a VM snapshot | | The Abiquo instance functionality was disabled in Abiquo 4.7.0 pending further development. To create snapshots and recreate VMs from snapshots use the Azure console. |
Remote access | | Depending on template type, for example: RedHat: template user/password Ubuntu: Using your SSH key registered in Abiquo, or template user/password
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Create and delete networks | | Each Abiquo VDC will map to an Azure ARM virtual network An Abiquo private network will map to a subnet in the VDC network Users can allocate and assign public IPs
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Create and delete VPNs | | Site-to-site VPNs, for example, from private cloud (NSX) to Azure, and from Azure to Azure |
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Create and manage firewall policies | | The platform supports one firewall per VM When onboarding VMs, if the VM and firewall are not in the same VDC, the platform will not assign the firewall to the VM Azure allows users to create deny rules in their VM firewalls. Abiquo synchronizes firewall policies with deny rules but it does not display the deny rules, and it will not allow you to edit the firewall rules. Abiquo does not synchronize Azure firewalls that use application security groups Abiquo supports rules with multiple source IPs/destination IPs
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Use Chef | | Enterprise Chef or your own server |
Use Chef attributes | |
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VM bootstrap scripts | |
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VM variables | | Stored as node metadata. |
Load balancing | | The platform supports Standard SKU load balancers and Basic SKU load balancers. See Azure load balancers table |
Import and synchronize VMs | | To onboard VMs, the enterprise must have credentials registered. |
VM monitoring and metrics | | |
Dashboard billing widgets | | The Home view dashboard view can display public cloud billing information, including the latest bills and estimated bill. For the default tab display, see Hybrid and Home view. This data will display when an Azure reseller is configured with pricing credentials |
High availability | | Requires the privileges to Manage availability sets and Assign availability set to VM All of the VMs in an availability set must be in the same Azure Virtual Network, which means they must be in the same Abiquo virtual datacenter. To attach Azure VMs to a load balancer, you must add them to the same Availability set.
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Resource groups | | Requires the privilege to Manage resource groups, also Delete resource groups When you synchronize (or onboard) a virtual datacenter (an Azure Virtual Network), Abiquo onboards all resource groups in your Azure account When you synchronize a virtual resource (firewall, load balancer, availability set, and so on), Abiquo will onboard its resource group (if it wasn't already in Abiquo) When Abiquo periodically onboards and synchronizes volumes (Azure Managed Disks), then Abiquo will onboard the resource groups of the volumes. This may mean that some volumes and their resource groups may be automatically onboarded before the user onboards their resources in the platform
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Tags | | Requires the privilege to Manage tags |
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