Tip Tuesday: Using SDN on Abiquo Clouds
January 10, 2014 | 1:24 pm
Abiquo offer software defined networking with CohesiveFT‘s VNS3
With CohesiveFT their VNS3 product is available to all Abiquo customers through the default Abiquo repository. VNS3 is a hybrid overlay networking appliance built for Abiquo integrated cloud deployments
VNS3 acts as 6 devices in one: router, switch, firewall, VPN concentrator, protocol redistributor and scriptable SDN. It’s different from other SDN and network function virtualization (NFV) solutions because of the customer-controlled overlay network built on top of the underlying cloud network.
The inclusion of VNS3 means that you can easily create secure overlay networks to allow our customers to:
1. Use VNS3 to create overlay networks between your Abiquo private cloud and public clouds such as Amazon AWS
2. Use VNS3 to create overlay networks between Virtual Datacenters within your Abiquo cloud. Perhaps you have virtual datacenters in different physical locations, or even countries?
3. Use VNS3 to create overlay networks between Virtual Datacenters hosted by our Service Provider customers
In each case the use of VNS3 means that you configure your application network once. Even if you move that application between the three use cases or move between private, public and hybrid Cloud configurations.
You can find out more about VNS3 here, including technical information and pricing.
Tip Tuesday: More infrastructure, more choice
January 10, 2014 | 1:24 pm
Abiquo’s technology agnostic approach means more choice and flexibility and with the latest edition of the Abiquo software; Abiquo v2.6 we now support more compute and storage than ever before. Allowing cloud providers to get maximum value from their existing investments, or tailor services for their customers.
More choice with Abiquo v2.6
Abiquo v2.6 supports:
Public Cloud
AWS EC2 with VPC
Hypervisors (Compute)
VMWare vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
Citrix XenServer 6.2.0
KVM CentOS/RHEL 6.4
Oracle VM Server for x86 V3.2.1
Storage
ANY hypervisor datastore
ANY NFS storage for self service storage (external volumes and persistent VM’s)
generic iSCSi supports ANY iSCSi storage
integrated iSCSi (for more storage self service) supports
NetApp ONTAP 7, ONTAP 8.1.3, ONTAP 8.2
Nexenta NexentStor 3.0.4, 3.1.3
LVM CentOS/RHEL 5 or 6
Download Abiquo v2.6 and see how much choice you have with Abiquo.
Tip Tuesday: Take Control of your Cloud Resources
January 10, 2014 | 1:24 pm
Many organisations are wary of the agility that comes with cloud services and rightly so! They feel that they will no longer have control over users who now have access to self service, outside the constraints of normal IT controls. Abiquo helps you deliver those cloud services, so that your users have the benefits of self service, whilst allowing you to remain in complete control.
Resource limits can be set for all of your cloud resources (compute, memory, storage and networking) for each cloud tennant. Those same resource limits can also be applied at a more granular Virtual DataCenter, or physical data center level, if required. Meaning that the cloud provider remains in complete control of anyone who can using that resources and where in the infrastructure those resources can be used. All of Abiquo’s resource limits contain a hard limit, that cannot be exceeded and a soft limit that can generate warnings or alerts to both the end user, or the administrator, or even the sales guy.
Abiquo Resource Limits
With v2.6, Abiquo has extended its capabilities to include AWS EC2. The same control of resources now applies to the public cloud, with the cloud administrator controlling how much resource can be used in each AWS region, and therefore controlling how much can be spent. Here are the limits you can set in an Amazon Virtual Datacenter in Abiquo:
Setting resource limits in your Amazon environment with Abiquo
Download Abiquo now to take control of your cloud resources!
