Azure ARM features table

Abiquo offers these features in the initial public cloud integration with Microsoft Azure ARM Compute.

To search for templates in Azure ARM, the format for a template ID is {region}/{provider}/{name}/{version}

Azure ARM Feature	Support	Comments
Configure and remove VMs		When you deploy, you’ll select the hardware profile
Reconfigure VMs
Power on VM
Power off VM
Reset VM
Pause and resume VM
Take a VM snapshot		You must power off the VM in Abiquo and after the snapshot you cannot power it on again. When a VM is used to take an snapshot, it becomes "generalized" in Azure. You cannot power on a generalized VM again in Azure, so all operations will fail with an error message. Future Abiquo releases will undeploy the VM after the snapshot to avoid confusion.
Remote access		Depending on template type, for example: RedHat: template user/password Ubuntu: Using your SSH key registered in Abiquo, or template user/password
Create and delete networks
Create and delete VDCs
Create and manage firewall policies
Use Chef		Enterprise Chef or your own server
Use Chef attributes
VM bootstrap scripts
VM variables		Stored as node metadata.
Load balancing
Import and synchronize VMs		The enterprise must have credentials registered. Known issues with synchronization: Synchronized VMs are returned without IPs, when they should have one private IP and one public IP User cannot power off or undeploy synchronized VMs
VM monitoring and metrics		With Abiquo monitoring server and Abiquo collectd plugin, which can be installed using the Abiquo Chef cookbook. See Use collectd plugin for custom metrics