This section describes how to manage the physical infrastructure of your data center and public clouds, including compute, hardware profiles, datacenter networks, devices for SDN integrations, and storage devices and tiers on the hybrid cloud platform.
Privileges: Access Infrastructure view
Cloud administrators manage datacenters' physical infrastructure and public cloud regions in Infrastructure view. This cloud infrastructure will be offered to the end user as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud. Abiquo offers a multi-datacenter approach, so you can provide virtual infrastructure supported by public clouds and physical infrastructure in different locations.
To access the Infrastructure view, click the servers Infrastructure button at the top of the main menu.
To display the Google Maps you will require an API key. See How to obtain and install a Google Maps API Key
Datacenters and public cloud regions
Abiquo defines a datacenter as a set of IT resources (servers, networking and external storage) in the same physical location. From the Infrastructure view you can manage basic infrastructure elements such as networks, racks, and physical machines.
Abiquo defines a public cloud region as a set of IT resources exposed by a supported cloud provider.
The following diagram shows a datacenter with compute resources and a public cloud region in AWS with VPCs.
The platform uses remote services to manage infrastructure
Manage remote services with the API
API Documentation
For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource RemoteServiceDCResource.
Apps library for datacenters
Display infrastructure map
Display infrastructure details
Display infrastructure statistics
The platform displays infrastructure statistics and resource usage for private and public cloud. You can display statistics for all datacenters or all public cloud regions, or filter them for a specific datacenter or region.
Privileges: Access Infrastructure view, Display resource usage panel
To view the resource usage of a cloud location:
Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public
Select All, or select a datacenter or public cloud region
If necessary, to display the Statistics view, click on the chart statistics button
API Documentation
For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource StatisticsResource.
Related pages
For installation and configuration information for the Abiquo platform, see Abiquo infrastructure guide
Configure scheduling and allocation with rules, for example, load level, load balance: Allocation Rules
Create backup policies for the datacenter to match the backup integration: Backup
Create racks and organize compute resources in private cloud: Compute in Datacenters
Manage public cloud accounts: Compute in Public Cloud Regions
Create hardware profiles to represent CPU and RAM service levels in private cloud and manage them in public cloud: Hardware profiles
Check resources levels by infrastructure category: Infrastructure Statistics
Manage datacenter networks: Networks
Manage storage service levels and devices: Storage
View and manage VMs at the highest level of the platform: Administer virtual machines in infrastructure