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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. |
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Let’s get started on a guided tour of the cloud platform and try key platform tasks, from creating a datacenter to launching a VM.
Introduction
Using Abiquo, service providers and enterprises can build multicloud environments for IAASIaaS. It is a flexible platform where you can provide controlled self-service to your cloud users. The user interface is intuitive and easy-to-use. Users can To create new virtual environments by simply dragging and dropping , users can simply select templates or using application blueprints. Administrators can completely whitelabel the user interface with corporate branding at the tenant level.
All of the Abiquo functions that you can perform through the user interface are also available through a RESTful API, which means that you can integrate and automate with the platform.
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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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Customers wish to leverage existing virtualized infrastructure. Abiquo can manage 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:
A new Datacenter is created with all available resources managed by Abiquo. |
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Note: For vCloud Director, you must enter the API endpoint and the public cloud credentials in order to retrieve the public cloud regions (for example, in vCloud this is equivalent to a Provider or Org VDC).
To create a new public cloud region
Go to Infrastructure → Public
Click the + add button
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 IP address of the monolithic Abiquo server. Click Duplicate IP addresses to copy the remote service location.
Click Save to use this remote services configuration for the datacenter.
Next section: Infrastructure
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