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Create a datacenter

Before you begin:

  1. Obtain the IP address of the Remote Services server. If you are using a monolithic trial environment, this is the same as your Abiquo Server IP address

  2. Check if you will require the DHCP service (it is required for standard Abiquo networking) and check the protocol to use (Omapi or Dnsmasq). See also Configure DHCP remote service with dnsmasq

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Privileges: Access infrastructure view and Private DCs, Manage datacenter

To create a datacenter do these steps:

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Private

  2. At the bottom of the Datacenters list, click the + add button

  3. On the Create datacenter dialog, enter the Name of the datacenter and its Location to plot the datacenter on the Infrastructure view map. Then click Next 

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  4. To create the datacenter remote services, enter the IP address of the remote services server for the Virtualization manager. To copy the remote service location, click Duplicate IP addresses 

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After the platform creates the datacenter, do these steps:

  • To allow users to deploy in the datacenter, edit your enterprises to add the new datacenter to the Allowed datacenters list 

  • To allow administrators to manage the datacenter, edit your administration scopes and add the new datacenter 

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Create a datacenter using the API

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API Documentation

For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource DatacentersResource.

See also API infrastructure tutorial

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