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To create a rack:

1. Open the Infrastructure view and select Private and the datacenter name. If you are not on the Infrastructure details tab (with Servers, Network, etc.), open it by clicking the server button in the top right corner of the screen.

2. At the top of the DATACENTERS list, click the plus button 

3. Enter details of the Rack 
   

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4. Click Network and enter details for your switch and environment. The platform will use these settings to create a pool of VLAN tags to assign to private networks
   

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5. Click Save

To create datastore tiers

1. In the Infrastructure view, click the Datastore tiers tab, and click + Add to create a datastore tier.
   

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2. On the Enterprise access tab, allow all enterprises to access the tier.

Task: Add a physical machine

1. Use the + button to create a new physical machine. For example, for vCenter.
   

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   Select the hosts to add to Abiquo and configure them as described here.
   

   1. For each hypervisor host, you must enable a network interface (by assigning a Network Service Type). This is the network interface that is listening on VLANs.
      

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   2. For each hypervisor host, you must enable at least one datastore (mark the checkbox). 

      

       Do not enable the vm_repository for use as a datastore.
      

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Repeat the process of adding the physical machine for additional hypervisor hosts. Add the datastores to a datastore tier.

Once a physical machine is discovered by Abiquo, customers can scan the host for existing VMs. The existing VMs that are not managed by Abiquo will be highlighted and customers will have the opportunity to capture the existing VMs and bring them under Abiquo management. This functionality allows customers to phase in the deployment of Abiquo

1. Create virtual datacenters for the host hypervisor type and appropriate networks for the VMs

2. In Infrastructure view, select the host and press the button to scan for VMs

3. Select a VM that is not managed by Abiquo

4. Click the Capture VM button.

See: Import and Capture VMs for more information. Some VMs will be prefixed with ABQ and managed by Abiquo, and some will be already running and not managed by Abiquo.

To create a public network and IPs

1. From the Infrastructure side, select Datacenter, Network tab, and select the "Public" sub-tab.

2. Click the + icon to add a VLAN

3. Fill in the necessary information and click Save
   

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4. Create IPs as required. Click Accept

5. Review the list of available IPs and make unavailable any IPs that are required for administration purposes. Use the arrow button to move one or more IPs from available to unavailable

6. If a specific Public IP might have been misused, it can be quarantined. A quarantined IP cannot be used by any enterprise to provision to their VMs. Click the quarantine button to make an IP unavailable to enterprises in the 'PUBLIC IPS' table.

To create allocation rules

1. Select the data center and edit. Select the Allocation Rules tab
   

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2. Add a new DATACENTER rule on the right pane with the + icon. Select the Rule type such as 'Compute load level' as below. This rule can be used for oversubscription of CPU. For example, in a test system with small VM templates, you could set RAM to 100% and CPU to 400%. You can also set a storage load level rule for datastore usage.
   
   

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   If you are adding a vCenter cluster directly as a physical machine, use the server rule not the cluster rule.
   

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To add credentials for the current enterprise:

1. In the top right-hand corner of the screen, click on the user icon.

2. From the dropdown menu, select Edit credentials
   

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3. Select the cloud provider

4. Enter the Access key ID and the Secret access key

5. Click Add account
   

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6. Click Close

The credentials will be added to the tenant's account