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Datacenter management
System administrators can manage the physical infrastructure (represented in Abiquo as a set of Physical Datacenters) from the Infrastructure view.
The available operations in this view are:
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Create a new Datacenter |
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Remove an existing Datacenter |
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Edit the selected Datacenter |
Creating a Datacenter
To create a new Datacenter, user must enter the name and location of the Datacenter, and the location of the different remote services that are deployed with the Abiquo Platform.
The basic fields of the Datacenter creation form are:
| Field | Value |
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| Name | The name of the Datacenter |
| Location | The physical location of the datacenter |
Remote Services
Since Abiquo is based on a distributed architecture, the Remote Rervice interface provides a way to configure the different services of the distributed architecture that will be used by a Datacenter, to provide the IaaS Cloud. The Rremote Services used by Abiquo are:
| Remote Service | Description |
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| Virtualization Manager | Manages The Virtual Appliance lifecycle. Connects to Cloud Nodes to perform Virtual Machine operations. |
| Monitor Manager | Is responsible of Virtual Appliance monitoring. It listens to events produced in Cloud Nodes and updates Virtual Appliance state. |
| Appliance Manager | Manages the Image Library and the Image repositories. |
For each Remote Service the fields described in the following table must be filled. After filling them up, users can use the Check button to test Remote Service connection.
| Field | Value |
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| Protocol | The protocol used to connect to the Remote Service |
| Address | The address of the Remote Service |
| Port | The port used to connect the Remote Service |
| Context | The context where the Remote Service is published |
 | Remote Service Address Although localhost is set by default as the Remote Service address, it is desirable to set it to an accesible (public) host name or IP. Abiquo exchanges these addresses between the distributed components of the platform, so addresses such as localhost or 127.0.0.1 should not eb used in order to avoid inter-module communication issues. |
Enterprise Edition Remote Services
 | Enterprise Edition Functionality This feature is available in Abiquo Enterprise Edition |
| Remote Service | Description |
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| Discovery Manager | Used to autodiscover physical machines. Can retrieve hardware information, Hypervisor type, and existing Virtual Machien information. |
| DHCP Service | It is the DHCP service used to assign an IP address to the Abiquo managed Virtual Machines. |
| Business Process Manager | Performs asynchronous Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) operations. |
| Storage Manager | Manages External Storage in a standard way. |
| About Storage Manager The Storage Manager remote service does not appear in Datacenter creation form, because its behavior is a little bit special. To add the Storage Manager remote service, just create the Datacenter, and add it from the Datacenter edition form. |
Modifying a Data Center
The following image shows the popup that appears when the user modifies a Datacenter. All information that can be entered in this popup is identical to the described in the previous section.
The following actions are allowed in the Remote Services tab:
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Add a Remote Service to the Datacenter. |
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Remove the selected Remote Service. |
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Check the status of the selected Remote service. |
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Edit the selected Remote Service. |
Data Center statistics
| Enterprise Edition Functionality This feature is available in Abiquo Enterprise Edition |
The System Administrator can view detailed statistics of Datacenter resource usage. This statistics can be presented either in a graphic mode or in a numeric mode.
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In both modes, the following information is displayed:
- Total number of the enterprises in the cloud.
- Total number of users in the cloud.
- Total Number of Virtual Datacenters assotiated to selected Datacenter.
- Total Servers / Servers Running / Server Not running.
- Total external storage volumes created / Total external storage volumes attached / Total external storage volumes not attached.
- Total Public IP's / Total Public IP's reserved / Total Public IP's used.
- Total Virtual machines / Total Virtual Machines running / Total Virtual Machines not running.
- Reserved virtual CPU by enterprises / Real virtual CPU / Used virtual CPU.
- Reserved Hard Disk resources by enterprises / Real Hard Disk resources / Used Hard Disk resources.
- Reserved Memory by enterprises / Real Memory / Used Memory.
