Flow chart

This flow chart describes the basic process for provisioning infrastructure and tenants. 

Provision tenants

This section describes how to set up enterprises, which are basic cloud tenants.

Before you create tenants, you should do these steps:

• Add infrastructure to the platform as described in the Infrastructure provisioning guide 

  • Configure the platform in Configuration View including:  Configure two factor authentication

• Prepare enterprise themes for white-labelling following the Abiquo Branding Guide

• Create roles and scopes

• Create pricing models

Introduction to user roles

Create a user role

Modify the privileges of a role

Manage roles with the API

Introduction to user scopes

Create a scope

Manage scopes with the API

Create a basic enterprise

This section describes how to create a basic tenant enterprise for a cloud tenant. For more detailed information, see Manage enterprises.

To create a basic customer enterprise do these steps:

1. Go to Users

2. At the bottom of the Enterprises list, click the + add button to add an enterprise

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3. On the General tab

   1. Enter the customer Name

   2. As the Default scope, set the tenant scope that will define the tenant hierarchy

      • The platform will automatically add this enterprise to the scope. Note that if you change the default scope of an enteprise, the platform will not remove the enterprise from its previous scope.

   3. If the enterprise represents the tenant headquarters or similar, select Key node

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4. Go to Allocation limits and set resource usage limits for the enterprise

   When the users reach a soft limit, Abiquo warns them about resource usage. When users reach a hard limit, then they cannot obtain more resources.

5. On the Datacenters tab, drag and drop providers, datacenters, or regions to Allowed datacenters, to allow the tenant's users to work in them. 

   1. To configure the tenant in each allowed location, see Configure an enterprise in a cloud location

6. On the Properties tab, for each tenant metadata property, enter a Key and Value, and click Add.
   See Enterprise properties general table and Display cloud provider billing data
   To inject the tenant details into VM metadata, see Manage enterprise credentials and properties | Inject enterprise properties as VM variables

7. Optionally, add credentials for public cloud. See Add credentials for public cloud

8. Click Save

The platform will create the enterprise and filter to display only this enterprise. 

Create a pricing model

See Create a new pricing model  

Assign a pricing model to the tenant

Create a tenant administrator user

Provision networks

To create private cloud infrastructure networks, see Network provisioning guide.

Create virtual datacenters

The platform administrator will generally create virtual datacenters for tenants when accounting is by virtual datacenter. 

See Manage virtual datacenters

You can automate the process of creating virtual datacenters using the Abiquo API. See How to create virtual datacenters and VMs via API

Import and capture VMs

See Import and capture virtual machines

Configure backup as a service

Abiquo offers optional backup plugins that support popular backup systems such as Veeam and Networker. These plugins require separate licenses. For information about configuring these plugins, see Abiquo backup plugins. After the plugins are configured, you can manage Abiquo backups in Infrastructure view on the Backup policies tab. See Backup.

Your cloud users can then configure backups for their VMs. See VM backups.

Provision tenants with the API

See Create tenants via API.