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Basic walkthrough of how to configure an external network as the default for an Abiquo enterprise. |
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Basic concepts of Abiquo networking: Networking
Configuration of network infrastructure: Networks
Manage datacenter networks in the UI: Network
Introduction to external networks
An external network enables you to define IP ranges and a VLAN tag, to allow the virtual datacenters to connect directly to each other, or to other networks outside of the virtual infrastructure. For an external network, the administrator should configure the same VLAN tags on all switches in the Abiquo environment. Check that IP addresses for use outside Abiquo are reserved inside Abiquo. An unmanaged network is an external network with IPs managed outside of the Abiquo platform, for example, by a corporate DHCP server.
Some external network configuration examples:
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External networking scenario Unmanaged networking scenario Further example of external networking with MPLS Tunnel |
External networks can be used:
Adhoc - create and use in existing virtual datacenters, connected to VMs in virtual datacenters.
Default for virtual datacenter - assign as the default network for a virtual datacenter when it is created (instead of the default private VLAN). When you deploy a new VM in the virtual datacenter with no network configuration, it will be automatically assigned a VNIC attached to the external network.
Default for enterprise -assign as the default network for an enterprise for a specific datacenter. When you create a new virtual datacenter for the enterprise in this datacenter, the external network will be the default. But you can override this at virtual datacenter level.
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Define external networks for each enterprise datacenter
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This page describes how to configure an external network as the default for an Abiquo enterprise with the UI and the API. For an explanation of external networks, see |
The sections below provide GUI and API workflows to create external networks as the default for an enterprise and links to the User's Guide and Developer's Guide for the external network functions usedto use.
The Two users can perform the tasks in the workflows below may be performed by two different usersworkflow. Typically, a cloud administrator would perform the first group of tasks would be performed by a cloud administrator user, and the second group of tasks could be performed by a cloud administrator or an enterprise administrator could perform the second group of tasks.
GUI workflow for creating default external networks
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