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This document is part of the Abiquo walkthrough and it describes Hybrid cloud. |
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This walkthrough describes administrator actions to create hybrid and public cloud environments in Abiquo.
Customers wish to offer convenient public cloud services with the same easy user interface. In addition to local data centers, Abiquo can manage public cloud resources. To perform this walkthrough, the user must be logged into Abiquo as the Cloud Operator and have network access to the public cloud providers. Each tenant will require their own set of public cloud credentials.
To manage public cloud, Abiquo creates public cloud regions, which are similar to data centers, for public cloud providers, and clouds managed by platforms such as OpenStack and vCloud Director.
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| title | Click here to show/hide the task: Create a public cloud region |
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- Create a new public cloud region from the + button in Infrastructure view.
- Enter the name for the region, select the public cloud provider and mark the checkboxes for the region(s) you wish to use. Click next.
- Enter the first digits of the IP address of the monolithic Abiquo server, select it from the dropdown list and click Duplicate IP addresses to copy remote service location, ports, and components
- Click the "Accept" button to use this remote services configuration for the datacenter.
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To work with public cloud, each tenant requires a set of credentials for working with the cloud provider API. The cloud administrator can edit an enterprise to enter the credentials. Or a tenant administrator can enter the credentials for their own enterprise, if they have the appropriate privileges. Abiquo offers some basic guides on how to Obtain public cloud credentials.
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To add credentials for the current enterprise:
The credentials will be added to the tenant's account |
In a similar way that you can capture VMs from hypervisors in private cloud, the cloud operator or tenant administrator can acquire the existing virtual infrastructure so that it can be managed by Abiquo.
Abiquo will import the following (as supported by the provider):
virtual datacenters
virtual datacenter networks
public IPs
firewalls
load balancers
VMs
templates used to create VMs, with templates that are not available marked appropriately
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If the provider does not support virtual datacenters, Abiquo may create logical virtual datacenters to organize the virtual resources.
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Imported virtual infrastructure is now managed by Abiquo and is available to virtual datacenter users. Changes made directly in the provider can be updated in Abiquo by clicking the synchronize button beside the virtual datacenter name in the VDC list. |
You can easily onboard your virtual resources from public cloud in the myCloud virtual datacenters view using the option to Synchronize public cloud.
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As in private cloud, tenant administrators can define allocation limits to restrict resources available to cloud users in the virtual datacenter in public cloud. These allocation limits complement the limits set by cloud operators for the tenant.
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To restrict virtual resources in public cloud, do these steps:
An allocation limit will be defined for the virtual datacenter. Users should see a popup as they exceed the soft limit and will be prevented from surpassing the hard limit. |
Tenant administrators can obtain public IPs from the cloud provider and make them available to users in their enterprises. This functionality is only available in public cloud providers with public IP support, such as AWS. In some providers, such as DigitalOcean, an IP is supplied automatically, and in other providers, such as Azure, the user can choose the IP or work with the automatically supplied one.
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The public IP is now ready for adding to a VM. Remember to check how your cloud provider charges for public IPs. For example, they may charge for public IPs when they are not attached to deployed VMs. Remember to release the public IP after you have finished working with it. See Manage Public Cloud Networks |
And Abiquo tenant administrators can create firewalls (security groups) in public cloud providers that support them, such as AWS.
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| title | Click here to show/hide the task: Create firewall policies |
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Firewall policies are created for the virtual datacenter. As always, check your provider documentation for specific information about security group functionality. See Manage Firewalls
Abiquo tenant administrators can create load balancers in public cloud providers that support them, such as Rackspace, or OpenStack with Abiquo OpenStack Neutron integration. Abiquo has a consistent interface for load balancers that incorporates different provider functionality.
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| title | Click here to show/hide the task: Create a load balancer |
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A load balancer is created. As always, check you provider documentation for pricing and functionality. For more information about load balancers in Abiquo, see Manage Load Balancers.
The cloud platform can support multiple datacenters and public cloud regions, with different technologies and service levels. The template mobility feature enables VM templates to be exported from datacenters to other datacenters and to public cloud regions. So this walkthrough requires one requires one private cloud datacenter and a public cloud region, and a compatible template, prepared according to provider instructions (see VM Template Mobility). Remember to check that the tenant is allowed to use the private cloud datacenter and the public cloud region.
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| title | Click here to show/hide the task: Export a template to public cloud |
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To export a template to public cloud, do these steps
- Go to the Apps library on the private datacenter templates tab. Select a compatible template and from the options menu, select Export
- Select the provider type (Public or Private) and for public cloud, select the Provider and Region. Click Next
- Select the disk(s). For public cloud, you can only select one system disk
- Click Export to continue. The export may take some time
- Open the Apps library in the new datacenter or public cloud region to check that the template is successfully copied and converted
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For full details about public cloud in Abiquo, see Public cloud integrations and Public cloud providers.