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• Basic concepts of Abiquo networking: Networking

• Configuration of network infrastructure: Networks

• Manage datacenter networks in the UI: Network

Introduction to external networks

An external network enables you to define IP ranges and a VLAN tag, to allow the virtual datacenters to connect directly to each other, or to other networks outside of the virtual infrastructure. For an external network, the administrator should configure the same VLAN tags on all switches in the Abiquo environment. Check that IP addresses for use outside Abiquo are reserved inside Abiquo. An unmanaged network is an external network with IPs managed outside of the Abiquo platform, for example, by a corporate DHCP server.

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• Adhoc - create and use in existing virtual datacenters, connected to VMs in virtual datacenters.

• Default for virtual datacenter - assign as the default network for a virtual datacenter when it is created (instead of the default private VLAN). When you deploy a new VM in the virtual datacenter with no network configuration, it will be automatically assigned a VNIC attached to the external network.

• Default for enterprise -assign as the default network for an enterprise for a specific datacenter. When you create a new virtual datacenter for the enterprise in this datacenter, the external network will be the default. But you can override this at virtual datacenter level.

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