Abiquo walkthrough

This document and the sub-documents present a walkthrough of the Abiquo platform to present the main aspects of the cloud platform to the cloud administrator.
For a tutorial that is designed for a test environment with some infrastructure in it already, see Abiquo quick walkthrough of private cloud.
For a s tutorial where you can perform all of the basic configuration tasks, see Abiquo quick tutorial

Let’s get started on a guided tour of the cloud platform.

Introduction

Using Abiquo, service providers and enterprises can build multicloud environments for IaaS. It is a flexible platform where you can provide controlled self-service to your cloud users. The user interface is intuitive and easy-to-use. To create new virtual environments, users can simply select templates or application blueprints. Administrators can completely whitelabel the user interface with corporate branding.

All of the Abiquo functions that you can perform through the user interface are also available through a RESTful API, which means that you can integrate and automate with the platform.

The Abiquo user interface is divided into a series of views that you can access from the main menu.

The Infrastructure view provides the Cloud Admin with a summary view of the cloud infrastructure. The Statistics tab shows compute (CPU/Memory), storage and networking resources. The Cloud Admin can easily display the resources allocated to cloud users (limits in black) and the used resources (red). It is possible to allocate more resources than those that actually exist, until the users need to consume the real resources.

The resources come from the multiple cloud locations (datacenters and public cloud regions) that are listed in the Infrastructure view on the left of the GUI. The Cloud Admin is able to view and administer multiple locations from the same interface (or single pane of glass). For each location, Abiquo Remote Services manage the resources. So a “datacenter” may represent all the resources in one geographic location, or one part of a large environment that is broken down into multiple data centers. And a "public cloud region" represents resources in a public cloud provider, for example, Amazon EC2. The Abiquo datacenter or public cloud region is one level at which you can apply Abiquo control policies. Within the cloud location, the Cloud Admin can view and administer resources, such as compute, networking, and storage.

Next section: Infrastructure