Home view for cloud users

User dashboard

The Home view or Dashboard is usually the first screen you will see when you log in to Abiquo. By default, it has Metrics, Hybrid, and Optimization tabs. 

• To sort tables by columns, click on the columns in the header rows

• To jump directly to a VM, virtual datacenter or virtual appliance, double-click on its Name or label.

Display dashboard metrics

On the Home view dashboard, the Metrics tab provides a general view of the resources currently being used by your virtual datacenters, as well as events.

The Enterprise resources - virtual datacenters panel shows statistics of the resources used by your virtual datacenters.

Select the virtual datacenter name from the pull-down list

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Display enterprise resources and metrics on the dashboard

Key to the graph:

• Blue: Used resources

• Orange: Soft limit

• Red: Hard limit

Enterprise resources table for virtual datacenters

Dashboard metrics tables

The Metrics tables give you an overview of your virtual resources in the cloud platform. 

Virtual datacenters and Virtual appliances describe all these entities of your enterprise in the platform, with totals in the table header

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Virtual appliances and Virtual datacenters

The Last deployed VMs widget displays the last VMs your tenant deployed on the platform. You can filter by user, including deleted users

The Last triggered alerts widget displays the last monitoring alerts for your tenant’s alarms.

The Events widget displays all events that you can access. To display full details of an event, click on the event row. 

Hybrid

The Hybrid tab provides an overview of the distribution and cost of your resources between public cloud providers and private cloud. 

The Workload of VMs by location is a graph of the number of VMs your tenant has deployed in public cloud providers and private cloud. To view more details, click on the graph

The Virtual machines count lists your tenant’s VMs. You can filter the list by a public cloud provider or private cloud and click through to the VMs.

The Hybrid billing dashboard contains billing details for all providers, with a selector for public cloud providers and private cloud.

The Last bills widget displays a graph of the latest bills with the amount of the last bill and the change in spend from the previous bill for the selected provider.

It also contains a graph of the most recent bills registered in the system. Move the mouse over the graph line to display the bill details.

The widget also displays the billing details for each cloud provider with a breakdown by service.

The Estimated bill widget is for the current period. The platform calculates a linear regression of daily costs for the current period, and the change in spend from the last bill for the selected provider

Optimization

The Optimization tab aims to help you make best use of your cloud resources. 

For more details of a VM, click on the arrow symbol beside the VM details

The Optimization widgets can help you to save on your cloud spend or improve the performance of your cloud systems. These widgets include the following: