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• Remote services DHCP server supplied with Abiquo or other compatible server
  
  • Configure datacenter DHCP as described below
    
    • For example, if you have many virtual machines in a datacenter, you might need a separate relay server to manage VLANs for the DHCP server
  • Add the DHCP service to Abiquo when creating or editing a datacenter
    
• DHCP server incorporated in an integrated network virtualization system
  
  • In an Abiquo datacenter, create a logical device that will enable Abiquo to connect via the API of the network virtualization system to its DHCP server. See Create SDN Devicesdevices.
  • If the network virtualization system DHCP server is not available, Abiquo will fall back to the datacenter remote services DHCP server
    

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• Manage the VLANs (or VXLANS), serving IP addresses to virtual machines
• Serve static routes to virtual machines using the DHCP option
• Serve information from the Chef integration using the vendor encapsulated options
  
  • The Chef integration is not available with NSX

How Abiquo Uses DHCP

The connections in DHCP are as follows:

1. When you deploy a virtual machine, Abiquo (Remotes Services) supplies the network settings for the new VM to the DHCP Server.
2. When the new virtual machine powers on, it broadcasts a DHCP request for network configuration.
3. The hypervisor passes the DHCP request through a VLAN to the DHCP server.
4. The DHCP server broadcasts a lease with the network configuration for the virtual machine over the same VLAN

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