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The GCP integration manages two main types of networks: global networks and subnets. Global networks are private networks that are available in many regions (or cloud locations in Abiquo). The platform updates global networks and subnets from a region when you create or synchronize the region.
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There is a new Global section where you can view and manage the global networks and subnets in the virtual datacenters myCloud view. To open this section, click the Global globe button.
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Your users cannot deploy VMs in GCP without private subnet IP addresses, so users will need subnets of the global networks in their virtual datacenters.Create
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Users with the appropriate privileges can create subnets of global networks in Virtual datacenters view, Locations view, and Global view.
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The GCP integration supports external storage volumes, which are zonal persistent disks. For more details, see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#disk-types. . Users must select an Availability zone for the volume and then add their VM to the same zone.
As As always, when users edit VMs, they can go to the Storage tab and drag volumes into the VM.
The platform considers the boot disk to be a hard disk, so when you undeploy the VM, the platform will delete the boot disk. You can find any other external storage disks in the Volumes section of the virtual datacenter. You can reuse them on other VMs or or move them to another VDC in the same public cloud region.
When you first onboard a disk, it will be in the same virtual datacenter as the VM that it is attached to. You can find persistent disks that are not attached to a VM in the cloud location, which you can access through the Locations section by clicking the Location symbol at the top of the Virtual datacenters list.
In Google Cloud Platform, you can set a flag to delete the disk when you destroy a VM, and in this case, GCP will delete the disk when you undeploy. The platform will remove the deleted disk as part of the periodic check or a synchronization process.
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Configure virtual machines
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As in all public cloud providers, the user selects a hardware profile to define the specifications of their VM.
VM networks
The user can also configure their VM NICs by dragging and IP addresses into the Network configuration. At this point, they can also add new IP addresses in the available networks, including automatically generated IPs. Remember that in GCP each VM must have an IP in a subnet. To be able to connect to the VM, users must add a public IP address. Abiquo will automatically manage the firewall for remote access.
VM storage
Users can also add storage volumes to VMs by dragging them from the Volumes list into the Storage pane.
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VM bootstrap
On the Bootstrap tab, users can add scripts that are compatible with cloud-init.
VM variables
The startup scripts can use variables that the users add on the Variables tab.
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VM monitoring
On the Monitoring tab the platform displays the metrics available in Google Cloud Platform and users can select the metrics to display. For more details, see Display VM metrics. By default, Abiquo gets metrics from Google Cloud Platform every 5 minutes.
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Remote access to VMs
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