Azure ARM Integration

Azure ARM Features table

Abiquo supports the Azure ARM features described in the following table.

• Azure ARM features table

Obtain Microsoft Azure ARM credentials and add to Abiquo

Abiquo supports several different types of Azure ARM subscriptions.

• Abiquo and Azure ARM subscription types
• Obtain Azure ARM credentials

How Abiquo works with Microsoft Azure ARM

Abiquo creates virtual datacenters that correspond to virtual networks in Azure ARM.

The virtual network in Azure will have the same name as the VDC in Abiquo. The private network in Azure will have the same name as the private network in Abiquo.

When the user creates a VDC, they can specify the address space of the virtual network. The user can create, onboard, and delete address ranges. See Manage address ranges.

NICs

Abiquo supports private IPs in Azure as follows:

• If you deploy a VM with more than one private IP, a NIC is created for each IP. The number of supported NICs depends on the size of the VM 

• You cannot reconfigure a deployed VM to attach another private IP from a different subnet.

In Azure, every VM must have at least one private IP address. And to add a public IP address, you must have a corresponding private IP address.

Abiquo represents every IP address separately, so you cannot reorder Azure NICs in Abiquo.

Resource groups

• Manage Resource Groups

Availability sets

• Abiquo and Azure availability sets
• Assign an Availability set to a VM

VPNs

Users can create VPNs to Azure Virtual Networks.  

• Abiquo and Azure VPNs
• Configure Azure VPNs
  • Set enterprise properties to store tenant details and metadata
• Manage VPNs

Storage

Abiquo supports Azure Managed Disks.

• Abiquo and Azure storage
• Manage storage in public cloud

Deallocate or Power off a VM in Azure 

In Azure ARM, the Abiquo options to shut down or power off a VM become the options to power off or deallocate a VM. 

• Deallocate or power off a VM in Azure

Azure firewalls

Abiquo supports firewall policies, which are Azure Network Security Groups. 

• Abiquo and Azure firewalls

Azure load balancers

Abiquo supports Standard SKU and Basic SKU load balancers.

• Azure load balancers table

Filter Azure templates by publisher

• Configure template publishers in Azure
• Filter by template publisher in Microsoft ARM

Configure default credentials for VMs in Azure

• Configure default credentials for VMs in Azure 

Optionally configure polling and timeouts

As for other public cloud providers, you can optionally configure the VSM polling frequency. 

• Abiquo Configuration Properties#vsm