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Prepare to onboard from public cloud

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Before onboarding virtual resources, administrators must do these steps:

Create the public cloud region to import from
Allow the tenant access to the public cloud region (Enterprise → Datacenters → Allow public cloud region)
Register the tenant's credentials for the public cloud provider (Enterprise → Credentials)

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Introduction to onboard from public cloud

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You can onboard virtual resources from public cloud into the platform. If the cloud provider supports virtual datacenter (VDC) entities, such as AWS VPCs or Azure virtual networks, you can onboard them as VDCs and synchronize them. If the cloud provider does not support VDCs, then you can onboard the resources from the public cloud regions, such as Google Cloud Platform regions.

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Privileges: Manage virtual datacenters

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Onboard virtual datacenters from public cloud

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name	Onboard virtual datacenters from public cloud

To onboard resources from public cloud:

Go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters
At the bottom of the V. Datacenters list, click the + add button
Select Synchronize public cloud
On the General information tab, select the region and the other entities to onboard
1. The virtual datacenter entities are: AWS VPCs, Azure Virtual Private Networks, OCI Virtual Cloud Networks, vCloud vApps
2. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) does not use virtual datacenter entities, so the platform onboards and synchronizes regions and all their resources.
  In GCP You cannot onboard or synchronize individual resources, for example, a public IP.
  - When you first onboard from GCP, the platform will onboard virtual datacenter resources into a generic virtual datacenter for the region.
  - The platform will add regional or global resources separately, such as global networks and public IP addresses.
  - If you created virtual datacenters and resources before onboarding, the platform will add related resources into your virtual datacenters
  If conflicts occur during onboarding, the platform may stop and roll back the onboarding.
3. Optionally, to restrict user permissions in the virtual datacenter, go to Roles and select a custom user role.
  Optionally, set exceptions to the virtual datacenter role
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For more details see Set a virtual datacenter role to limit user access

The platform will onboard the selected resources for you to manage.

The platform will mark the Public subnet (identified by a custom route table and NAT gateway) with a globe symbol and set the Internet gateway flag for this subnet.
Users with bespoke network configurations should check the results of the synchronization.
The platform will synchronize private and public IP addresses even if they are not in use by VMs, and mark the IP addresses in use by provider entities with provider identifiers.
The platform will import VM templates. If the platform cannot find the VM template, the VM will have no template in the platform. To save a copy of your VM disk to create a template, so you can recreate the VM, make an Abiquo instance of the VM.

Warning
If you delete an onboarded VDC, the platform will delete it in the provider. If your enterprise does not have valid credentials for the public cloud provider, when you delete public cloud entities in the platform, they will still exist in the public cloud provider.

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View classic VMs

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To display classic VMs in public cloud:

Go to Virtual datacenters
Click the + Add button and select Synchronize public cloud

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Select the public cloud region
Click the See classic link

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Synchronize VDCs and resources

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Manage resources that were deleted directly in the cloud provider

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When administrators delete resources in the

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provider, the platform will display the resource name in light gray to indicate that the user cannot work with the resource. The resource types include:

External networks
Firewalls
Classic firewalls
Load balancers
NAT network
NAT IPs

To delete these resources (if they are not in use), select the resource and click the delete button.

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Delete or release virtual resources in public cloud

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The virtual resources that you onboarded or created in public cloud will be grouped with their associated virtual datacenters.

Before you begin:

If you recently created virtual resources, such as load balancers, synchronize the virtual datacenter to ensure that the platform can find all the dependencies of the virtual datacenter.

To delete onboarded resources in public cloud:

Delete

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each virtual datacenter
- You can choose to delete each virtual datacenter in the platform only, or in the platform and the provider.
- If you delete in the platform only, the platform will automatically remove VMs, virtual appliances, load balancers, public IPs, and firewalls from the virtual datacenter. It will not delete the firewalls
- When you delete a virtual datacenter, public IPs that are not attached to VMs will remain in the provider and the synchronization process will delete them
- Remember to check which is the default VDC in your provider, e.g. AWS default VPC, because it may be inconvenient to delete this VPC

Warning
If the enterprise does not have valid credentials for the public cloud provider, when you delete public cloud entities in the platform, they will continue to exist in the public cloud provider

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Onboard from public cloud using the API

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Abiquo API Feature

This feature is available in the Abiquo API. See VirtualDatacentersResource for synchronization and AllowedLocationsResource for retrieval of virtual datacenters and VMs.

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	Onboard from public cloud regions without virtual datacenters
	Onboard from public cloud regions without virtual datacenters

Control onboard of VMs to VApps