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- Private Networks within virtual datacenters (in private and public cloud)
- External Networks accessible from outside the virtual datacenter and outside the Abiquo platform, and ssigned to a single tenant
- Unmanaged Networks with IP addresses managed outside of Abiquo only, and assigned to a single tenant
- Public Networks with with public IP addresses and Internet access and can be shared by multiple tenants
- Public IPs in public cloud, such as AWS Elastic IPs
For more detailed descriptions of each network, please see Cloud Tenant Networks
The external, unmanaged and public networks may be collectively referred to as datacenter networks because they are managed at the Abiquo datacenter level.
Cloud network configuration options
- Standard networking
- DHCP server
- Guest setup
- Software defined networking (SDN)
- Public cloud and cloud provider networking
Standard networking
In 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.
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- DHCP
- The default configuration is the DHCP server installed by Abiquo
- Own DHCP server
- Guest setup
- Abiquo supports cloud-init and hypervisor tools
- Own guest setup method
Software defined networking
Abiquo supports software defined networking (SDN) through integrations with network managers such as OpenStack Neutron and VMware NSX, providing SDN and firewalls and load balancers in private cloud datacenters or regions. Abiquo uses the SDN systems to manage private networks and to manage IPs of datacenter networks. You can use Neutron in private cloud datacenters and you can also use it with OpenStack cloud regions.
Public cloud and cloud provider networking
Abiquo supports many different public cloud providers with different types of networking. For example, in AWS, Abiquo creates datacenters with NAT support and manages Elastic IPs.
See the Public cloud provider features section for more information about specific providers.