Google Cloud Platform features table

Billing dashboard

Obtain and display the provider billing data including the latest bills and estimated bill.
See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311377904 for examples, and for configuration instructions see https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311369773 . 

Pricing

Onboard prices for hardware profiles, manage a markup, and use prices in estimates, usage metering, and billing

Billing

Incorporate billing data into a single bill for the multi-cloud platform

Hardware profiles

Onboard hardware profile families and types

Configure and remove VMs

Reconfigure VMs

Reconfigure of IPs is limited in this provider.

The GCP integration has the following limitations with replacing subnet IPs:

• Users cannot change from one IP to another IP in the same subnet. As a workaround, you can change to another network, and then go back to the original network with a new IP.

• Abiquo does not support Ephemeral public IPs, so you cannot onboard or replace these IPs

• Google supports this model: 1 VNIC is 1 subnet IP and 1 external/public IP. If there is an ephemeral public IP in the VM, then the user will not be able to reconfigure and add public IPs.

Power on VM

Power off VM

Reset VM

Pause and resume VM

Storage

Take a VM snapshot

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Remote access

Using your SSH key registered in Abiquo or VM template user and password for Windows RDP

Create, update, and delete networks

• Global VPC networks

• Subnets and IPs (static)

• Public IPs (external static)

Reconfigure of IPs is limited. See the section about Reconfigure VMs above.

Create and delete VDCs

Onboard resources from Google Cloud Platform regions

Create and manage firewall policies

Abiquo will automatically create a firewall for VM access in a global network. Users can create firewalls in the myCloud Global section or Virtual datacenters section. The administrator can assign a default firewall to a virtual datacenter. If users do not assign a firewall, then the platform will assign the default firewall.

Use Chef

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Use Chef attributes

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VM bootstrap scripts/cloud-init

VM variables

Load balancing

 See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311363883

Import and synchronize VMs

To onboard VMs, the enterprise must have credentials registered

VM monitoring and metrics

Google Cloud Platform monitoring.
Also custom metrics with Abiquo monitoring server and Abiquo collectd plugin. See  

DNS policies

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Automated actions

Abiquo can run action plans on VMs

Autoscaling

Abiquo can automatically clone VMs or undeploy VMs to match your changing application needs

Tags

Abiquo stores tags as labels in GCP. See

• You can use Abiquo tag policies to control Abiquo tags, including GCP labels

• Google recommends that you do not store sensitive information using labels

Specs (prepackaged apps)

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