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Introduction to public cloud
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The multi-cloud platform enables you to add public cloud regions and vCloud Director clouds as public cloud regions. You can offer cloud tenants a federation of private cloud and public clouds in a single pane of glass. And you can control the use of public cloud resources in the same way as you can in the platform's private cloud datacenter (quotas, limits, etc).
The platform manages public cloud regions using remote services. For a public cloud region, the remote services can be shared with other datacenters or public cloud regions, and you do not need an NFS repository. Each cloud tenant using the public cloud region will require its own cloud provider account and needs to add a set of credentials to the Enterprise.
When users create a virtual datacenter and deploy in the public cloud region, the platform creates the entities in the public cloud provider. For example, in AWS, Abiquo creates a VPC and in AWS, VMs deployed in the VPC virtual datacenter are AWS EC2 Instances.
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Create a public cloud region
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This section describes how to create a public cloud region. |
A public cloud region represents a region of a cloud provider in Abiquo, to enable users to have compute access: to use virtual resources and deploy VMs in the cloud, and/or billing access: to display cloud billing data on the dashboard.
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Privileges: Access Infrastructure view and PCRs, Manage public cloud regions |
Before you begin:
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For vCloud Director
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, obtain credentials for the Administrator or Organization. For more details
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To create a public cloud region:
Go to Infrastructure → Public
Click the + add button at the bottom of the
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Public cloud regions
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list
On the Create public cloud region dialog
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, enter the base Name and select the Provider.
Select the Regions
The platform will create
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a region
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with Name
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for the next regions it will add a suffix of
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_1
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,
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_2
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, and so on,and the region’s location.
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If
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the platform cannot create a region, it will
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go on to the next region on the list.
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Click Next
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For the Virtualization manager, in the remote services IP address field
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, enter the
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domain name of the Remote Services server.
You can share the remote services with multiple public cloud regions or private cloud.
You can select the Remote Services server
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from the pulldown, and click Duplicate IP address
We recommend that you Check the remote services before you save your regions
Click Save
The platform will create your public cloud region.
To allow users to deploy in the public cloud region, edit your enterprises to:
Edit Datacenters and add the new region to the Allowed datacenters list
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Add Credentials for the cloud provider API
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. See Obtain public cloud credentials
You will require one separate account for each enterprise using a public cloud region,
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which means one account or subscription per enterprise
For certain regions, such as those in China, you will require separate credentials, which you can enter separately
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after you select the appropriate provider
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, such as
Amazon CHINA
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For vCloud Director, you will require Organization and Administrator credentials
To allow administrators to manage the public cloud region, edit your
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user scopes and add the new
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Delete a public cloud region
Before you begin
Delete virtual infrastructure, such as virtual datacenters and storage volumes defined within the public cloud region. For more information, see Manage virtual datacenters.
To delete a public cloud region
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Go to Infrastructure → Public
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Select public cloud region and click the trash bin delete button in the button bar at the bottom of the Datacenters list
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region
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To delete multiple remote services:
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Go to Infrastructure → Remote services
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