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AWS reserves five IP addresses in your private networks. It reserves the first four IP addresses and the last IP address of the VPC private connect network. These IP addresses are not displayed or used by Abiquo. Therefore the first available IP address in a network that is defined to start with address 0, will be address 54, and the gateway address will be address 1.
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| 192.168.0.1 | Reserved by AWS, default gateway address | ||
| 192.168.0.2 | Reserved by AWS | ||
| 192.168.0.3 | Reserved by AWS | ||
| 192.168.0.4 | Reserved by AWS | 192.168.0.254 | Reserved by AWS |
Internet Access
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- Go to Virtual datacenters and the top of the V. Datacenters list
- Click the + Add button select Synchronize public cloud from the pull-down menu
- The platform opens a dialog box with a pull-down list of public cloud regions. Select one of these regions.
- After you select the region, there are two possibilities:
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- For the public cloud region, the platform will display a drop-down list of virtual datacenter entities. For example, VPCs in AWS or Virtual networks in Azure. Select an entity and click the click Synchronize button.
- The platform will load all of the elements into a virtual datacenter so they can be managed. For example, from AWS, the platform will import the VPC, VMs, subnet with IP addresses, public IPs, firewalls and load balancers, which will be named with their provider identifiers.
The platform will detect a public subnet by the presence of a custom route table and NAT gateway, and the platform will mark the public subnet with a globe symbol and set the Internet gateway flag for this subnet. Users with bespoke network configurations should check the results of the synchronization. The platform will synchronize private and public IP addresses even if they are not in use by VMs, and mark the IP addresses in use by provider entities with provider identifiers.
Expand title Click here to show/hide the screenshot The platform will import VM templates. If the VM template cannot be found, the VM will be created in the platform with no registered template. In this case, to save a copy of your VM disk as a template, so you can recreate the VM, make an Abiquo instance of the VM.
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If you delete a synchronized VDC, the platform will you can choose whether to delete it in the provider . Always check which is the default VDC in your provider, e.g. AWS default VPC, because it may be inconvenient to delete this VPCor not. If your enterprise does not have valid credentials for the public cloud provider, when you delete public cloud entities in the platform, they will still exist in the public cloud provider |
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To view classic VMs, for example in AWS these are EC2 classic VMs, click the "See classic" link.
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Synchronize VDCs and resources
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To update a virtual datacenter and onboard any changes made in the provider, synchronize the virtual datacenter:
- Go to Virtual datacenters → V. Datacenters list
- Beside the virtual datacenter name, click the double arrow round arrow Refresh button
You can also synchronize resources such as networks, public IPs, firewalls, and load balancers. To do this, go to the resource tab and click the straight double arrow Synchronize button. For more information, see the resource documentation.
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Note to System Administrators: For information about tuning public cloud synchronization, see Abiquo Configuration Properties. |
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To delete these resources (if they are not in use), select the resource and click the delete button.
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Delete or release virtual resources in public cloud
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- You can create encrypted EBS disks in the platform and you can onboard encrypted disks
- If your AWS account has encryption set as the default, all EBS disks will be created with encryption. If you create a disk without encryption, the platform will display a warning message
- The platform will use encryption when you create an instance template of an encrypted disk, and when you create a VM from this template