Page Comparison

...

AWS Synchronization

To onboard virtual resources from public cloud:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters and the top of the V. Datacenters list
2. Click the + Add button  select Synchronize public cloud from the pull-down menu
   Image Added
3. The platform opens a dialog box with a pull-down list of public cloud regions. Select one of these regions.
4. After you select the region, there are two possibilities:

• • If the provider supports virtual datacenters, Abiquo will display a list of virtual datacenters
  • If the provider does not support virtual datacenters, Abiquo will automatically onboard the virtual resources in the region

Onboard virtual datacenters from public cloud

To onboard a virtual datacenter:

1. 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 Synchronize button. 
   Image Added
2. 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
  Image Added

  
  

• 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.

  Expand
  title Click here to show/hide the screenshot
  Image Added

  
  

...

View classic VMs

To view classic VMs, for example in AWS these are EC2 classic VMs, click the "See classic" link. 

...

Synchronize VDCs and resources

During VDC synchronization, the platform will ensure that the resources in the platform and the provider are the same.

• It will delete entities in the platform that were deleted already in the provider
• However, it will maintain resources attached to undeployed VMs in the platform
  • For example, if a user has an undeployed VM with IPs and a load balancer, then after the synchronization, these resources are attached to the VM in the platform only
  • Warning: These resources are "free" in the provider. Users working directly in the provider could assign these resources to other VMs. This will cause a conflict and error at deploy time

To update a virtual datacenter and onboard any changes made in the provider, synchronize the virtual datacenter:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → V. Datacenters list
2. Beside the virtual datacenter name, click the double 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.

...

Manage resources that were deleted directly in the provider

When administrators delete resources in the provider, the platform will display the resource name in light gray to indicate that the user cannot work with the resource. The resource types include:

• External networks
• Firewalls 
• Classic firewalls 
• Load balancers 
• NAT network
• NAT IPs

To delete these resources (if they are not in use), select the resource and click the delete button.

...

Delete or release virtual resources in public cloud

The virtual resources that you onboarded or created in public cloud will be grouped with their associated virtual datacenters.

Before you begin:

1. If you recently created virtual resources, such as load balancers, synchronize the virtual datacenter to ensure that the platform can find and delete all the dependencies of the virtual datacenter.

To delete onboarded resources in public cloud:

1. Delete each virtual datacenter
   • You can choose to delete each virtual datacenter in the platform only, or in the platform and the provider. If you delete in the platform only, the platform will automatically remove VMs, virtual appliances, load balancers, public IPs, and firewalls. Remember to check which is the default VDC in your provider, e.g. AWS default VPC, because it may be inconvenient to delete this VPC

...

Onboard from public cloud using the API

AWS Firewalls and Load balancers

...