Abiquo 5.1
In private cloud, to group hypervisor datastores and price them according to service levels, use datastore tiers.
You can add datastores to a tier when you add a hypervisor to the platform, or from the Datastore tiers tab.
To create a datastore tier:
Privilege: Access infrastructure view and Private DCs, View datacenter details, Manage storage elements
The platform will create the tier and allow access to all future enterprises that you create. For more details about the datastore tier settings, see the documentation on Abiquo Screens: GUI Create datastore tier General information and GUI Create datastore tier Enterprise access
When you create a datastore tier, by default the platform will allow access to the current enterprise only.
To allow access to different service levels you can set access for these levels:
To modify enterprise access for ALL enterprises, Infrastructure → Private → select Datacenter → Datastore tiers → create or edit datastore tier → Enterprise access
To display a list of enterprises that currently have access to a datastore tier:
To allow or prohibit access to a datastore tier for an individual enterprise
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To add multiple datastores to a tier:
From the popup list, select the Datastores to add
Click Add
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You can also add datastore tiers to services levels when you create or edit a hypervisor. See Compute in Datacenters
To recommend datastore tiers:
When the user creates a VM, the platform will display the tiers that are available to the user's enterprise and recommended for the template. If you select the option to Enable only recommended DS Tiers, then the user can only select from the recommended tiers. See Create a virtual machine. If there are no tiers available, the user will not be able to create a VM.
Customization of tier display
To display recommended tiers only before deploy and then display all compatible tiers after deploy, configure the Abiquo UI with the client.vm.datastoretiers.useonlyrecommended property. See Configure Abiquo UI. This configuration is independent of the checkbox to Enable only recommended DS Tiers.
The platform selects a default tier in the following priority order from highest to lowest:
A null tier means that datastore tiers are not in use.
When the user deploys, if the selected tier cannot be used, the deploy will fail with a scheduler error.
Privilege: Manage VM templates from Apps library
To set the default datastore tier for a template disk
On the Disks tab, the platform displays the default tier for each disk.
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The virtual datacenter default has a higher priority than the datacenter default and a lower priority than a default datastore tier set in a VM template or in the VM itself.
Privilege: Manage virtual machine hard disks
When you create a VM from a standard VM template, the template may have a recommended tier or the disks may have a default datastore tier set by the administrator. The administrator may enforce the use of a recommended tier.
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