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

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.

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 remote services used by Abiquo are described in the following table.

In datacenters, Abiquo creates self-service for users through the Apps library, which contains VM templates that are ready to deploy. In private cloud, the Apps library is based on an NFS repository and so Abiquo requires one NFS repository for each Abiquo datacenter. 

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

To display the infrastructure map:

1. Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public
2. For private cloud, select All or a datacenter

3. If necessary, click on the pin map symbol at the top of the Datacenters list

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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.

In Infrastructure view, you can manage private cloud infrastructure and display details of tenants in public cloud regions

To display the infrastructure resources:

1. Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public 
2. Select a datacenter or public cloud region
3. If necessary, click on the server details symbol at the top of the Datacenters list
4. 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.

The platform displays infrastructure statistics and resource usage for private and public cloud. The statistics vary depending on whether the data is for all datacenters or all public cloud regions, or filtered for a specific datacenter or region.

To view the resource usage of a cloud location:

1. Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public
2. Select All, or select a datacenter or public cloud region
3. If necessary, to display the Statistics view, click on the chart statistics button

Obtain infrastructure statistics with the API