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Abiquo manages VMware vCloud Director as part of the hybrid cloud platform, and this page describes the features and management model |
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Credentials models for VMware vCloud Director
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To allow only one organization to use the public cloud region, enter the organization credentials. 
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Add network privileges for organization administrators
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To resolve this issue, add permissions to the Organization Admin role:
Log in to VCD as the Administrator
Go to Administration
Go to Global Roles → edit Organization Admin → select 'NETWORKING - Provider Network - View'
Save and Publish the changes
Go to Rights Bundles → edit Default Rights Bundle → select 'NETWORKING - Provider Network - View'
Save and Publish the changes
Check the administrator of an existing organization to ensure they have the correct permissions.
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Create a public cloud region for VMware vCloud Director
Before you begin, see features and configuration at VMware vCloud Director
To create a public cloud region for VMware vCloud Director:
Go to Infrastructure → Public → Create public cloud region
Enter the Endpoint URL for VMware vCloud Director (e.g. https://myvclouddirector.example.com)
Enter Identity and Credential for ONE of the following models:
To add a provider VDC, enter Administrator credentials (user@System)
To add an organization VDC, enter Organization administrator credentials (user@orgName). This region will be exclusive to the organization
Click Retrieve regions and select the region
Click Next and enter the details of the Remote services
To enable enterprises to work in the region:
Edit each enterprise that will work in a VMware vCloud Director region (provider VDC or org VDC)
Go to Datacenters and drag the provider or region/s to the Allowed datacenters column
Go to Credentials and select vCloud Director. Enter the organization administrator identity and credential.
To associate the Org vDC with the Provider vDC in the platform, enter the VMware vCloud Director system user and password
Optionally activate hardware profiles
By default VMware vCloud Director works with CPU and RAM values and administrators can activate Abiquo hardware profiles as in private cloud. See Hardware profiles.
Configure import of VMs
When the platform onboards a virtual datacenter, it can onboard the VMs into a single Abiquo VApp or multiple VApps, depending on the enterprise properties of each tenant.
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Control onboard of VMs to VApps
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Import templates
When searching for templates, to retrieve templates from the enterprise's vCD organization, select the private checkbox. To retrieve templates from other organizations, select the public checkbox.
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Administrators can select hot-reconfigure options for their templates if the vCD operating system and template supports these options. They can also select the network driver, which by default is now VMXNET3.
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Abiquo manages VDCs and networks
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Users in Abiquo can work with VMware vCloud Director networks as follows:
Manage private networks
vApp networks, which may be isolated or have an external connection
Synchronize these external networks:
External networks outside the Org VDC but connected to the Edge, for use by load balancers but not VM vNICs
External networks outside the Org VDC with a direct connection to OrgVDC as OrgVDCNetwork
Isolated Org VDC networks, for use by VM vNICs but not load balancers
Synchronize and create and delete these external networks in the Virtual datacenters view
OrgVDC networks inside the OrgVDC and routed through the Edge
Administrators can create NAT networks for public cloud regions and users can manage NAT rules for their VMs.
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Screenshot: The user has created a private network in the VDC
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Users onboard firewalls
The user can onboard Edge firewalls as Abiquo classic firewalls. In VMware vCloud Director, classic firewalls can span vApps, so to access these firewalls in the platform, select All VDCs, then select the VMware vCloud Director region.
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You can then obtain NAT IPs for your virtual datacenters and create NAT rules for your VMs. The platform will automatically create a firewall rule for each NAT rule. To display this rule, the user will need to synchronize the classic firewall. The platform does not create a default SNAT rule for the virtual datacenter as in the NSX NAT integration so users should create SNAT rules in their VMs.
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VM firewall policies
When the virtual datacenter (VMware vCloud Director vApp) has an external (fenced) connection through an Edge gateway, users can create firewall policies in their virtual datacenter and assign them to their VMs.
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Notes about creating a VM from a template with multiple disks
The platform only displays one disk with the total size of all disks. When you add an additional disk and deploy, the platform will display two disks. After the deploy, the platform will synchronize the VM with the cloud and update the VM to display all disks
If you undeploy and remove a disk created from the template and then deploy again, the disk you removed will still be present (copied from the template), so you should remove it after the platform creates it.
Abiquo creates VMs within an Abiquo virtual datacenter and Abiquo virtual appliance.
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The user can request a remote console, by clicking the console button, and the platform will open it using WebMKS. See Branding WMKS.
Multicloud tags
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