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In private cloud, you can use standard networking or software defined networking (SDN). In public cloud and cloud providers, Abiquo supports provider networking options.
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Private cloud
In private cloud with 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. When using standard networking there are many different ways to you can configure virtual machine network addresses:
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mahcine IP addresses using DHCP or guest setup. The default configuration is the DHCP server installed by Abiquo
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but you can also provide your own DHCP server. If a DHCP server is not found, Abiquo uses guest setup. Abiquo supports cloud-init and hypervisor tools
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as guest setup methods, requiring compatible templates. You can also use your own guest setup method
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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 IPs and to manage IPs of managed datacenter networks. You can use Neutron in private cloud datacenters and you can also use it with OpenStack cloud regions.
Public
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Abiquo supports many different public cloud providers with different types of networking. For example, in In AWS, Abiquo onboards VPCs, and creates VPCs with NAT support, and Abiquo manages Elastic IPs. . In OpenStack private cloud regions, you can use Neutron.
See the Public cloud integrations and Public cloud provider features documentation for more information about specific providers.