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This document describes how to install a basic Abiquo environment using the Abiquo OVAs. |
Required skills
Some essential system administration skills required for managing the cloud platform are as follows:
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Abiquo has the following key server components:
Abiquo Server (Cloud orchestrator, API, UI)
Remote Services (That do the work of managing the cloud, with one set per Abiquo DC)
Optional monitoring Server (Manage VM and platform metrics data)
These components can be installed in different installation profiles.
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There are three main ways to install Abiquo:
Monolithic server (small environment, also for labs and testing)
Distributed environment (larger environment, better for production)
HA environment (large, high performance environments)
This document describes how to install a Monolithic environment.
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The VM networks are a group, which we call the Service network. For these networks you will need the following:
A range of VLAN tags for your VMs to use in private networks.
Configure this in your network infrastructure and then enter the tags for each group of hypervisors when you configure your Abiquo Racks.
Abiquo will assign a tag from the pool when it deploys the first VM in a private network.VLAN tags of other networks in your infrastructure that users can work with:
Public networks (shared by all enterprises, users can purchase IPs)
External networks (any kind of IP address, one tenant only).
Don’t forget to connect your hypervisors to the Service network… :-)
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The Abiquo monitoring appliance is optional. To deploy the Monitoring appliance, you will need to enter the following parameter.
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Friendly hostname | The name the appliance will use internally. It is the entire FQDN the UI will have. |
Management IP address | IP of the server’s NIC on the Management Network |
Management IP netmask | Netmask of the Management network |
Default gateway | Default gateway of the NIC on the Management network |
DNS server list | IPs of DNS servers in a list, separate by spaces |
NTP server list | Your servers will use these NTP servers to keep their clocks synchronized |
RabbitMQ IP | The IP address where the rabbitmq runs. In monolithic environment it will be the IP address of the Monolithic server. In distributed environment it will be the IP address of the Abiquo server. |
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Allow ICMP ICMP must be allowed between all components of the Abiquo platform, including hypervisors. |
Browser requirements
Abiquo UI requires a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768 for productive work.
It is based on HTML5 so browsers must support these HTML5 features: Forms block, Drag and drop.
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