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
Introduction to remote services
Remote Services are applications that perform operations for the Abiquo orchestrator. For example, when you create a volume of external storage in the platform, the orchestrator uses the NARS remote service to communicate with the storage device and request that it create the volume.
The Abiquo remote services are as follows.
Remote Service | Description |
|---|---|
Virtualization manager | Manages virtual appliance startup and shutdown. Connects to cloud nodes to perform VM operations. Also known as the virtual factory. |
Monitor manager | Performs virtual appliance monitoring. Listens for events occurring in cloud nodes and updates VM state. Also known as the virtual system monitor. |
Appliance manager | Manages the VM templates, appliance library and template repositories. |
Discovery manager | Auto-discovers physical machines. Retrieves hardware information, hypervisor type, and existing VM information. Also known as node collector |
Service manager | Manages XaaS (anything as a service). Retrieves service details and displays a service interface in the platform |
Business process manager | Performs asynchronous Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) operations, converting VM templates to all hypervisor formats, and managing template exports. |
DHCP service | Assigns IP addresses and static routes to the VMs managed by the platform. |
DHCPv6 service | Assigns IPv6 addresses to the VMs managed by the platform. |
Remote access manager | Manages connections to virtual machines for remote access |
Display infrastructure details
In Infrastructure view, you can manage private cloud infrastructure and display details of tenants in public cloud regions
Privileges: Access Infrastructure view, View datacenter details, Manage infrastructure elements
To display the infrastructure resources:
Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public
Select a datacenter or public cloud region
If necessary, click on the server details symbol at the top of the Datacenters list
In public cloud, click on a tenant account to display its details
To allow tenants to use virtual resources, grant them access to the datacenter or public cloud region. See Manage Enterprises and Configure an enterprise in a cloud location
To allow users to administer a restricted set of datacenters or public cloud regions, use administration scopes.
Note that scopes will affect the administration of datacenter resources but not the use of datacenter resources. If the user's enterprise is allowed to use a datacenter, the user will be able to deploy in that datacenter, even if they do not have administration privileges for it.
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.
Introduction to the Catalogue for datacenters
In datacenters, Abiquo creates self-service for users through the Catalogue, which contains software templates and blueprints that are ready to deploy. In private cloud, the catalogue stores disk images on an NFS repository and so Abiquo requires one NFS repository for each Abiquo datacenter.
The platform uses remote services to manage infrastructure
Remote Services are applications that perform operations for the Abiquo orchestrator.
The Abiquo remote services are as follows.
Remote Service | Description |
|---|---|
Virtualization manager | Manages virtual appliance startup and shutdown. Connects to cloud nodes to perform VM operations. Also known as the virtual factory. |
Monitor manager | Performs virtual appliance monitoring. Listens for events occurring in cloud nodes and updates VM state. Also known as the virtual system monitor. |
Appliance manager | Manages the VM templates, appliance library and template repositories. |
Discovery manager | Auto-discovers physical machines. Retrieves hardware information, hypervisor type, and existing VM information. Also known as node collector |
Service manager | Manages XaaS (anything as a service). Retrieves service details and displays a service interface in the platform |
Business process manager | Performs asynchronous Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) operations, converting VM templates to all hypervisor formats, and managing template exports. |
DHCP service | Assigns IP addresses and static routes to the VMs managed by the platform. |
DHCPv6 service | Assigns IPv6 addresses to the VMs managed by the platform. |
Remote access manager | Manages connections to virtual machines for remote access |
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.
Display infrastructure map
In Infrastructure view, under the default configuration, if the Abiquo Server has an Internet connection, the platform can display an infrastructure map using Google Maps. To set the default coordinates, see Configure map defaults. To configure Google Maps in the platform, see How to obtain and install a Google Maps API Key
Privileges: Access Infrastructure view, View datacenter details, Manage infrastructure elements
To display the infrastructure map:
Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public
For private cloud, select All or a datacenter
If necessary, click on the pin map symbol at the top of the Datacenters list
To move around the map:
Zoom in and out using the zoom slider or + and - controls on the top left-hand side of the screen or the mouse.
Move or pan across the map using the arrow controls or the mouse, for example, clicking and dragging to the area of the map that interests you.
Select from Map with optional terrain or Satellite images with optional labels.
It is possible to use Google street view.
When you create datacenters, enter map locations and Abiquo will plot them on the map.
To display a bubble with the name and location, move the mouse over a datacenter pin on the map.
To center the map on a location, click on a name in the locations list.
If your datacenters do not display as pins on the map, see How to obtain and install a Google Maps API Key for information about using Google Maps in Abiquo.
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