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In private cloud with standard networking, cloud networks are VLANs in the 'service network' that runs on the Abiquo platform networks. For each datacenter, the network administrator should design the configuration (e.g. VLAN tags, switches, SDN) that will be required. For standard networks, the administrator must configure the cloud platform switches to support the VLANs that make up the service network. When using standard networking you can configure virtual mahcine IP addresses using DHCP or guest setup. The default configuration is the DHCP server installed by Abiquo but you can also provide your own DHCP server. If a DHCP server is not found, Abiquo uses guest setup. Abiquo supports cloud-init and hypervisor tools as guest setup methods, requiring compatible templates. You can also use your own guest setup method.
Abiquo supports has integrations with software defined networking (SDN) through integrations with network managers systems such as OpenStack Neutron and VMware NSX, providing SDN easy to configure network blueprints and firewalls and load balancers in private cloud datacenters or regions. Abiquo uses the SDN systems to manage private networks and IPs and to manage IPs of managed datacenter networks. You can use Neutron in private cloud datacenters and you can also use it with OpenStack cloud regions.
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