Infrastructure view

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Last updated: Jul 10, 2023
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This section describes how to manage the physical infrastructure of your data center and public clouds, including compute, hardware profiles, datacenter networks, devices for SDN integrations, and datastore tiers in the hybrid cloud platform.

 

Privileges: Access Infrastructure view

Cloud administrators manage datacenters' physical infrastructure and public cloud regions in Infrastructure view. This cloud infrastructure will be offered to the end user as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud. Abiquo offers a multi-datacenter approach, so you can provide virtual infrastructure supported by public clouds and physical infrastructure in different locations.

To access the Infrastructure view, click the servers Infrastructure button at the top of the main menu.

Infrastructure view with map
Infrastructure view with map

To display Google Maps you will require an API key. See How to obtain and install a Google Maps API Key.

Introduction to remote services

Remote services are applications that perform operations for the Abiquo orchestrator. For example, when you deploy a VM in the platform, the orchestrator uses the Virtualization manager remote service to communicate with the hypervisor and request that it launch the VM.

The Abiquo remote services are as follows.

Remote Service

Description

Remote Service

Description

Virtualization manager

Manages virtual appliance startup and shutdown. Connects to cloud nodes to perform VM operations. Also known as the virtual factory.

Monitor manager

Performs virtual appliance monitoring. Listens for events occurring in cloud nodes and updates VM state. Also known as the virtual system monitor.

Appliance manager

Manages the VM templates, appliance library and template repositories.

Discovery manager

Auto-discovers physical machines. Retrieves hardware information, hypervisor type, and existing VM information. Also known as node collector

Service manager

Manages XaaS (anything as a service). Retrieves service details and displays a service interface in the platform

Business process manager

Performs asynchronous Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) operations, converting VM templates to all hypervisor formats, and managing template exports.

DHCP service

Assigns IP addresses and static routes to the VMs managed by the platform.

DHCPv6 service

Assigns IPv6 addresses to the VMs managed by the platform.

Remote access manager

Manages connections to virtual machines for remote access

Display infrastructure details

In Infrastructure view, you can manage private cloud infrastructure and display details of tenants in public cloud regions.

Privileges: Access Infrastructure view, View datacenter details, Manage infrastructure elements

To display the infrastructure resources:

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public 

  2. Select a datacenter or public cloud region

  3. If necessary, click on the server details symbol at the top of the Datacenters list

    • In private cloud, click on servers to display their details and VMs

      Display server and VM details in private cloud
      Display server and VM details in private cloud

    • In public cloud, click on a tenant account to display its details

To allow tenants to use virtual resources, grant them access to the datacenter or public cloud region.  See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311370845  and https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311377504 .

To allow users to administer a restricted set of datacenters or public cloud regions, use administration scopes. See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311370717 . 

  • Note that scopes will affect the administration of datacenter resources but not the use of datacenter resources. If the user's enterprise is allowed to use a datacenter, the user will be able to deploy in that datacenter, even if they do not have administration privileges for it.

Datacenters and public cloud regions

Abiquo defines a datacenter as a set of IT resources (servers, networking and external storage) in the same physical location. From the Infrastructure view you can manage basic infrastructure elements such as networks, racks, and physical machines.  

Abiquo defines a public cloud region as a set of IT resources exposed by a supported cloud provider.

The following diagram shows a datacenter with compute resources and a public cloud region in AWS with VPCs.

 

Introduction to the Catalogue for datacenters

In datacenters, Abiquo creates self-service for users through the Catalogue, which contains software templates and blueprints that are ready to deploy, as well as service configurations for XaaS.

In private cloud, the catalogue stores disk images on an NFS repository and so Abiquo requires one NFS repository for each Abiquo datacenter. 

 

Manage remote services with the API

Display infrastructure map

In Infrastructure view, under the default configuration, if the Abiquo Server has an Internet connection, the platform can display an infrastructure map using Google Maps. To set the default coordinates, see Configure map defaults. To configure Google Maps in the platform, see How to obtain and install a Google Maps API Key

To display the infrastructure map:

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Private or Public

  2. For private cloud, select All or a datacenter

  3. If necessary, click on the pin map symbol at the top of the Datacenters list

To move around the map:

  • Zoom in and out using the zoom slider or + and - controls on the top left-hand side of the screen or the mouse. 

  • Move or pan across the map using the arrow controls or the mouse, for example, clicking and dragging to the area of the map that interests you. 

  • Select from a map view with optional terrain or Satellite images with optional labels. 

  • It is possible to use Google street view.

When you create datacenters, enter map locations and Abiquo will plot them on the map. 

  • To display a bubble with the name and location, move the mouse over a datacenter pin on the map.

  • To center the map on a location, click on a name in the locations list.

If your datacenters do not display as pins on the map, see How to obtain and install a Google Maps API Key for information about using Google Maps in Abiquo.

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