Author: Antxon Gonzalez

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Network service type

Every time you add a physical machine, you must choose its rack and specify the network service type (NST) its network interfaces are connected to.

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DHCP

There are two different approaches to get DHCP working in your environment: Regular DHCP infrastructure When using SDN systems, such as NSX-T, Abiquo will use the DHCP services of the SDN system.

When you are using standard networking, you can choose between a regular DHCP service or the Abiquo DNSMasq networking solutionservice. Both solutions require a DHCP service listening to must listen on the Abiquo virtual networks (with VLAN tags in their NSTs), meaning that the service will need a NIC in each network.

If you have a large number of networks, regular DHCP may require a Relay relay network infrastructure to deal with all networks depending on their number,  while the . The DNSMasq solution has no limits to the number of interfaces the server may be listening to.

Additionally, Regular DHCP just requires an OMAPI capable server, as this is the protocol that Abiquo will use to manage the leases for the network environment.

When using SDN systems, such as NSX-T, Abiquo can use the DHCP services of the SDN system.

If your datacenter is configured without DHCP servicesdoes not have a DHCP service, you can use hypervisor tools or cloud-init to assign network addresses. See Guest setup