Virtual resource functional levels table

Abiquo virtual infrastructure is organized into three functional levels: virtual datacenters, virtual appliances and VMs.

Virtual datacenter level

At this level administrators can manage virtual datacenters that are logical groups of compute, network and storage resources, for example:

• Restrict users to selected VDCs 
• Limit resources for a VDC
• Assign a default network
• Create private networks
• Purchase public IPs
• Manage firewalls (classic firewalls are at regional level)
• Manage load balancers
• Manage volumes and persistent VMs
• Manage hard drives (API)
• Manage VPNs
• Restrict user roles in selected VDCs and define exceptions
• Create alarms for built-in VM metrics and custom metrics

Virtual appliance level

At this level users can manage virtual appliances that are folders (logical groups) of VMs or containers, for example:

• Deploy virtual appliances
• Manage VM anti-affinity layers
• View monitoring for VMs
• Restrict virtual appliances

VM level

At this level users can manage VMs, for example:

• Create and deploy VMs
• Obtain VDC resources on a self-service basis and configure compute, network, and storage for their VMs
• Restrict VMs by moving them to restricted VApps