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This quick tutorial shows you how to create a private cloud and deploy a VM using the Abiquo UI.
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In this tutorial you will perform the tasks of the cloud administrator, enterprise administrator, and enterprise user.
For more detailed introductory information, see Abiquo walkthrough And Solution evaluation criteria, which includes the same kind of tasks as this walkthrough, please see the Abiquo walkthroughmore tasks to evaluate the cloud platform.
1. Log in
Log in as Cloud Administrator with the details supplied by the Abiquo Support team, or using the default account with the following data:
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Go to Infrastructure → Private
At the bottom of the Datacenters list, click the + add button
Enter the Name of your Datacenter and its Location in Google Maps format, then click Next
Enter the details of the remote services. Abiquo uses Remote Services to connect to the providers and manage the cloud
In the first Remote services IP address field, enter the IP or domain name of the server running the Remote Services. For a monolithic server, this is the IP address of the server
If the Remote Services are all running on the same server, click the link to Duplicate IP Addresses
If you wish to use VM template features, such as file upload and download, run the Appliance manager over HTTPS. On the Monolithic OVA, it is preconfigured to run on port 443.
Click Check allto confirm that Abiquo can access the remote services.
Select Automatically open datacenter after creation
Click Save
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An Abiquo rack is a logical entity that can mirror a physical rack with a top of the rack switch. Configure Abiquo racks to match the VLAN network configuration of your switch.
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Go to Infrastructure → Private
Select the datacenter → Servers
At the bottom of the Physical servers list, click the + add button and select Rack
Enter the Name and click Save.
Optionally, to configure network tags, go to Network
Click Save
2.3. Add a cloud node
A cloud node is the physical machine and hypervisor host. To create a new physical machine:
Select your rack and click the + add button and select Physical machine
Select the Hypervisor type and enter the IP address or FQDN, and any other connection details as required
Click Accept. If you are working with a hypervisor manager, such as vCenter, select the physical machine and click Edit
On the General information tab, enter the Name of the physical machine
Go to Network and set the virtual switch interface for your machine to Service Network.
Go to Datastores and select the datastore and mark the checkbox to enable it
Note: On KVM in this simple test example, you can use the / directory, but Abiquo recommends that you create a separate partition for the KVM datastore
Return to General Information and click Check to confirm that the physical machine State is
ManagedClick Accept
The platform will add the physical machine to the rack and display it in the tree view of the Servers tab
Oversubscribe the physical machine
To oversubscribe the CPU and RAM of your physical machine in a test environment:
Go to Allocation rules
On the Global panel, click the + add button
Select the
Load level computerule typeIf you are using vCenter clusters as servers, select Server
If you are using vCenter hosts, select Server or Cluster
Complete the dialog:
Optionally, select a specific server
For RAM and CPU cores set values above
100%
3. Add VM templates to the catalogue
The catalogue stores VM templates so that users can easily create VMs from them. VM templates can be downloaded You can upload OVA templates from your local filesystem or download test templates from a remote repository or uploaded from a local machine. The templates in the catalogue are available to the virtual datacenters.
To add VM templates:
Go to Catalogue → Virtual machine templates
Select the datacenter
To load existing templates, beside the datacenter name, click the Refresh round arrow refresh button
In the Virtual machine templates pane, click the + add button and select the Create from remote template repository option
The Abiquo sample Remote template repository is included in the default configuration. URL: https://packer-repo.s3.amazonaws.com/ovfindex.xml
Select the Remote repository to display a list of the available templates.
Select one or more templates
Click Download
You can download any VM template and a background V2V process will convert it to all formats for deployment in any cloud node hypervisor.
The platform will display the templates you downloaded in the catalogue.
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In Abiquo, cloud tenants are called Enterprises.
To create an enterprise:
Go to Users
At the bottom of the Enterprises list, click the + add button
Enter the Name of the tenant
To allow your users to deploy, enable a datacenter for the enterprise. Go to Datacenters → and drag datacenters into the Allowed datacenters list
Click Save
Go to Users → Users click the + add button to add a user, and enter the details for a cloud administrator. Then create an enterprise administrator and a user.
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Virtual datacenters organize the infrastructure for providing the cloud service. From here, users can create VMs in virtual appliances and the Abiquo platform will deploy them to the infrastructure.
Go to myCloud view and Virtual datacenters by clicking the cloud icon
At the bottom of the V. datacenters list, click the + add button and select Create virtual datacenter
Enter a Name, and select the Datacenter and if necessary a Hypervisor type
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6.2. Add VM templates to create VMs
To create VMs:
To open your virtual appliance, click Open
Click Create VM
Select a template from the list of available and compatible templates.
For the Name enter a user-friendly name for your VM
This name may change when you deploy the VM if a VM with the hypervisor does not support duplicate VM namessame name already exists on the hypervisor
Click Save
6.3. Deploy the virtual appliance
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