This page is a guide for cloud administrators to provision tenants in private cloud.
Before you provision tenants, provision infrastructure. See Infrastructure provisioning guide.
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
Introduction to user scopes
Create a scope
Manage scopes with the API
API Documentation
For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource ScopesResource.
Create a basic enterprise
Create a pricing model
See Create a new pricing model
Assign a pricing model to the enterprise
Create a tenant administrator user
To create a tenant administrator user:
Go to Users view
Optionally, select an enterprise
Go to the Users tab
Click the + add button to add a user and complete the dialog
Enter General information
Role: select
ENTERPRISE_ADMINor similarScope: select a scope that contains the enterprise/s that the administrator will manage, for example, to manage users
For more details see table of field descriptions below.
Limit access to VDCs and enter Advanced details as required
Click Save
The platform will create the user in the current enterprise.
Field descriptions for Create user
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Enterprise | The enterprise that the user will belong to |
Full Name | The user's first name and family name |
Role | The Role of the user defining their set of privileges on the platform |
Scope | The Scope of a user defining the set of enterprise and datacenters that they can manage on the platform |
Username | The username for login. After you create the user, you cannot change the username |
Password | The user account password. Requirements are set by the options of Configuration → Security. See also Manually reset a user password |
Repeat password | Re-enter the password |
The contact e-mail address of the user for platform messages, including password reset. The platform will display a Gravatar icon associated with this address on the Users's card | |
Phone number | The phone number of the user. The platform will not validate this field. |
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.
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.