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Introduction

The Abiquo platform enables

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This document and the sub-documents present a walkthrough of the Abiquo platform to present the main aspects of the cloud platform to the cloud administrator.
For a tutorial that is designed for a test environment with some infrastructure in it already, see Abiquo quick walkthrough of private cloud.
For a s tutorial where you can perform all of the basic configuration tasks, see Abiquo quick tutorial

Let’s get started on a guided tour of the cloud platform.

Introduction

Using Abiquo, service providers and enterprises to can build multicloud environments for IAASIaaS. Abiquo It is a flexible platform where you can provide controlled self-service to your cloud users. And users work with an intuitive, The user interface is intuitive and easy-to-use interface. They can To create new virtual environments by simply dragging and dropping , users can simply select templates or using application blueprints provided by the administrators. And you . Administrators can completely whitelabel the user interface with corporate branding at the tenant level.

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The Abiquo UI user interface is divided into a series of views that you can access from the main menu.

The Infrastructure view provides the Cloud Admin with a summary view of the cloud infrastructure. The Statistics tab shows compute (CPU/Memory), storage and networking resources. The Cloud Admin can easily see display the resources allocated to cloud users (limits in black) and the used resources (red). It is possible to allocate more resources than those that actually exist, until the users need to consume the real resources.

The resources come from the multiple cloud locations (datacenters and public cloud regions) that are listed in the Infrastructure view on the left of the GUI. The Cloud Admin is able to view and administer multiple locations from the same interface (or single pane of glass). Each location is defined by the presence of For each location, Abiquo Remote Services that manage its the resources. So a “datacenter” may represent all the resources in one geographic location, or one part of a large environment that is broken down into multiple data centers. And a "public cloud region" represents resources in a public cloud provider, for example, Amazon EC2. The Abiquo datacenter or public cloud region is one level at which you can apply Abiquo control policies. Within the cloud location, the Cloud Admin can view and administer resources, such as compute, networking, and storage.

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titleClick here to show/hide the task: Create a datacenter

Customers wish to leverage existing virtualized infrastructure. Abiquo can mange a pool of IT resources (servers, networking and storage) that are in the same physical location on the same Local Area Network (LAN).

To create a new private cloud datacenter:

  1. Go to Infrastructure view, on the Private tab, and click the + button
  2. Enter the name of the datacenter and the location
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  3. Enter the IP address of the monolithic Abiquo server, and click Duplicate IP addresses to copy the remote service locations
  4. Click the "Accept" button to use this remote services configuration for the datacenter.
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Next section: Infrastructure