To enable you to control the storage that each tenant can use in a cloud storage service level, Abiquo 5.3.1 introduces Abstract datastore tiers with limits.
To display and manage groups of datastore tiers at the private cloud level, go to Infrastructure view → Abstract datastore tiers.
Abstract datastore tiers enable you to set cloud storage limits per tenant in more than one datacenter, including hard limits, that will block users, and soft limits, which can trigger a warning message for users or an event that you can capture and send as a lead to your cloud sales team!
And the Abstract datastore tiers widget will display storage usage and limits for the platform-wide service levels, which can each include multiple hypervisor datastores. You can rename this widget for your dashboard as always.
And you can configure the display of this widget as usual, when you add it to your dynamic dashboards in the Home view.
Users will require the following privilege to display data on the widget.
Privilege: Display enterprise statistics
To display the enterprise limits for storage service levels, with orange markers for soft limits and red markers for hard limits, assign the following privilege.
Privilege: Display enterprise limits in statistics
Without these privileges, the platform will not display any data.
To create a group tier for your datastore tiers, go to Infrastructure → Abstract datastore tiers, click the + add button, and enter a a Name.
To add service levels to the group, edit existing datastore tiers to assign them to the platform datastore tier group. Or create new ones and assign them.
To restrict the total storage that a tenant can use in a specific service level, add a limit for the platform tier. Just edit the enterprise and set the limit in Allocation limits.
Note that all the platform-wide storage service levels will display, even if the tenant does not have access to them.
So you will still need to grant the tenant access to individual tiers in each datacenter. Within each enterprise, when you edit the datacenter and go to limits, only the tiers that the enterprise can access will display.
You can also set limits for the datacenter only and they will be independent of the enterprise limits.
Abstract datastore tier limits per tenant apply to new deploys, reconfiguring VMs, and VMs that are captured from hypervisors to onboard them into the platform.