Total Visibility and Control for IT Operations
With most cloud solutions, public or private, empowering users means a loss of visibility and control for the IT Operations team. Not so with Abiquo, where you have full visibility, and where users operate within the boundaries that you determine, with an appropriate level of functionality according to their operational group, role and level of sophistication. True multi-tenancy provides automatic segregation between the various application and development groups, while providing full control over critical concerns such as resource consumption and public network access.
Global Infrastructure Management
Abiquo provides total management of the physical resources that build your cloud, across any number of data centers worldwide, including those you own, and those you buy resources from. It automatically discovers hypervisor hosts, performs physical and virtual inventory, and organizes storage device aggregations into managed tiers.
Best of all, Abiquo fully co-operates and integrates with the hypervisor and storage management tools you already have and, unlike many other cloud solutions, can be deployed across, or extended into, your existing virtualized environments – even while they are live and running. Progressively roll-out your cloud at your own pace without any requirement to “rip and replace”.
Abiquo supports all six of the major hypervisor types simultaneously, and allows you manage your entire infrastructure through a single pane of glass. Say goodbye to switching between multiple user interfaces – one award-winning GUI handles all your day-to-day management tasks.
Total Control
With a full role-based access model, you define the level of flexibility your users enjoy, from a simple application provisioning portal through to a complete virtual enterprise, each of which is autonomous within limits you determine. Resource limits determine the total amount of virtual resources each enterprise can consume, for example CPU cores, memory, hypervisor and managed storage, VLANs and public IP addresses. Resource limits are enforced, such that while authorized enterprises can delegate resources to sub-tenant virtual datacenters, collectively they cannot be exceeded. Accordingly, IT Operations can ensure that virtual resources never exceed physical capabilities - unless the organization intentionally decides to use a controlled over-sell model.
Operational limits ensure that virtual enterprises only have access to appropriate physical resources. For example, they can be limited to selected physical datacenters (or have resource limits applied to particular physical datacenters), be limited to using dedicated servers, and/or have their access to public networks controlled.
By default, each virtual datacenter is automatically isolated, with its own dedicated VLAN, such that even if a datacenter is permitted open public access, other datacenters cannot be exposed. You can also elect to have IP addresses allocated from an internal pool, using any selected address range. Internal networks can be created to link physical datacenters if desired.
No Manual Provisioning
With Abiquo, manual provisioning is a thing of the past. Entirely automated, from deploying virtual machines, creating storage volumes and mapping LUNs, through managing IP addresses and VLANs, Abiquo does it all for you, according to pre-defined business and operational policies.
No more frustrated users, no more provisioning mistakes, no more spending hours working out the best place to locate virtual assets, and an end to virtual sprawl. The IT Operations team is freed from provisioning drudgery to focus on managing the infrastructure at the required service levels and efficient capacity planning.
Abiquo recognizes that self-service clouds need to co-exist with more traditional application environments. Features like infrastructure reservation allows you to assign specific devices for the exclusive use of particular applications or user communities, yet still are managed collectively.
