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Introduction

This section is designed to give you a quick Introduction to our product and how it was developed. This starts with our vision; a high level view of how we see the future of cloud management, which is founded on clear strategy, rather than crafted to fit the implementation of an existing product or the nomenclature of confused terms. Following this there is an overview of the architecture of the Abiquo platform and a look at some deployment scenarios as well as a look at the basic Networking and Storage requirements  and possibilities of a Cloud environment.

User's Guide

The User's Guide is for Abiquo users who use the Abiquo GUI (Flex application) for virtual machine deployments and infrastructure management. If you are a new user, it would be best to start by reading the Starting abiquo for the first time section or the [Abiquo Quick Tutorial]. In this Guide you will also find out how to define a datacenter and manage your Virtual Infrastructure, as well as how to load virtual machine templates into the platform in the [Appliance Library view]. All platform activity will be reported in the Event System, which is also explained. If you are the System Administrator or the Enterprise Administrator of the platform, you can also see how to manage Users and groups.

Administrator's Guide

The Administrator's Guide shows you how to build, configure and manage your Abiquo platform and is therefore aimed at System Administrators. The easiest method for this is either using the Abiquo Installer CD-DVD or the Network install. It is important that you take into account the [Installation Prerequisites] and the [Configuration Files Overview] section when you choose the installation parameters and as a reference when you tune components of your Abiquo Platform. You should also consult the Cloud node section for each hypervisor type. This guide will also help you gain a general familiarity with the platform and how to perform all actions required to create and manage enterprise private clouds.

Developer's Guide.

This document reviews the specifications for creating and managing cloud resources with the Abiquo server using a RESTful API. It will cover the various object models and usage methods for these APIs, and was written primarily for developers interested in integrating dashboards into the Abiquo Resource Cloud. First you should look at how to [use the API], its [common behaviors] and the [response errors], note that the Abiquo API offers complete [infrastructure] management. Finally, to help you get started managing Datacenters, this guide has sections on the [datacenter resource], and remote services. 

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